gentilesse

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  Courtesy, refinement; gentleness.
 * 2) * 1913,, "Love's Almsman Plaineth His Fare" in The Complete Poems of Francis Thompson, New York: Modern Library, no date, p. 252,
 * Who bound thee to a body nothing worth, / And shamed thee much with an unlovely soul, / That the most strainedst charity of earth / Distasteth soon to render back the whole / Of thine inflamèd sweets and gentilesse?
 * Who bound thee to a body nothing worth, / And shamed thee much with an unlovely soul, / That the most strainedst charity of earth / Distasteth soon to render back the whole / Of thine inflamèd sweets and gentilesse?

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) courtesy, nobility, gentility, honor
 * 2) * 14th century,, Boece, edited by Richard Morris, London: Chaucer Society, 1886, Book 3, Metrum 6, p. 78,
 * "enm"

- For which þing it folweþ, þat yif þou ne haue no gentilesse of þi self, þat is to sein pris þat comeþ of þi deserte foreine gentilesse ne makeþ þe nat gentil.


 * 1) kindness, gentleness
 * 2) elegance