gentlemanhood

The Major would not hear of a year passing before this ceremony of gentlemanhood was gone through.

The History of Pendennis 2006

There have been not a few fine English gentlemen and ladies of this sort; who patronised the poor without ever relieving them, who called out “Amen!” at church as loud as the clerk; who went through all the forms of piety, and discharged all the etiquette of old English gentlemanhood; who bought virtue a bargain, as it were, and had no doubt they were honouring her by the purchase.

The Virginians 2006

Robert put too much trust in his manly beauty and native gentlemanhood.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

I gotter tremendous admiration fer all these yer signs of gentlemanhood.

Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

GRANVILLE; at the other, the dapper figure, with its indescribable air of old-fashioned gentlemanhood, the light of his smile shed impartially on the benches opposite, but his slight bow reserved for the MARKISS, as, leaning across the table, he pinked him under the fifth rib with glittering rapier -- this is a sight that will never more gladden the eye in the House of Lords.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 25, 1891 Various

"It is the very essence of gentlemanhood that one is polite to the weak, the poor, the friendless, the humble, the miserable, the degraded."

Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees

But I do not think it is so much surcharged as 'Esmond;' 'Barry Lyndon' is by no manner of means so conscious as that mirror of gentlemanhood, with its manifold self-reverberations; and for these reasons I am inclined to think he is the most perfect creation of Thackeray's mind.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

About the same time I revelled in the romanticism of 'Henry Esmond,' with its pseudo-eighteenth-century sentiment, and its appeals to an overwrought ideal of gentlemanhood and honor.

My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878

But I do not think it is so much surcharged as 'Esmond;' 'Barry Lyndon' is by no manner of means so conscious as that mirror of gentlemanhood, with its manifold self-reverberations; and for these reasons I am inclined to think he is the most perfect creation of Thackeray's mind.

My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878

About the same time I revelled in the romanticism of 'Henry Esmond,' with its pseudo-eighteenth-century sentiment, and its appeals to an overwrought ideal of gentlemanhood and honor.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878