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Definition:1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. [Obs.]2. People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.3. Courtesy; civility; complaisance. [Obs.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Most miserable is the estate of those gentlemen, which think it a blemish to their ancestors and a blot to their own gentry, to read or practise divinity.
John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)
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Missis always said they were poor and quite despicable: and they may be poor; but I believe they are as much gentry as the Reeds are;
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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the carpenters [...] left their work, taking off the bands that fastened their hair, to greet the gentry.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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To show us so much gentry and good will.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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recommended it to me as a light article for summer wear, an article much in vogue among the nobility and gentry, an article that it would ever be an honor to him to reflect upon a distinguished fellow-townsman's (if he might claim me for a fellow-townsman) having worn.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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