Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being gallant; gayness; fine appearance; bravery; dashing courage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being gallant.

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  • noun The quality of being gallant.

Etymologies

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gallant +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • That which gives to human actions the relish of justice is a certain nobleness or gallantness of courage, rarely found, by which a man scorns to be beholding for the contentment of his life to fraud, or breach of promise.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Through the 'Gate of Huldah' you enter into the Court of the Gentiles, and that under the King's Gallery; which, from the name itself and gallantness of the structure, might seem worthy of such a founder as Solomon.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Poemes, thirdly of metricall proportions, such as do appertaine to our vulgar arte: and last of all set forth the poeticall ornament consisting chiefly in the beautie and gallantness of his language and stile, and so haue apparelled him to our seeming, in all his gorgious habilliments, and pulling him first from the carte to the schoole, and from thence to the

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • That which gives to human actions the relish of justice is a certain nobleness of gallantness of courage, rarely found, by which a man scorns to be beholden for the contentment of his life to fraud or breach of promise.

    Chapter XV. Of Other Laws of Nature 1909

  • That which gives to human actions the relish of justice is a certain nobleness or gallantness of courage, rarely found, by which a man scorns to be beholding for the contentment of his life to fraud, or breach of promise.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

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