gentilesse

Historical Examples of gentilesse

• See remarks (in the notes) on Chaucer's Balade of Gentilesse.

  Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7)

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• For if e name of gentilesse be referred to renoun and clernesse of linage.

  Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'De Consolatione Philosophiae'

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• For it seme at gentilesse be a maner preysynge at come of decert of auncestres.

  Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's 'De Consolatione Philosophiae'

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• To which add, as a twenty-third, the three stanzas on Gentilesse quoted in Scogan's poem (no. 33).

  Chaucer's Works, Volume 5 (of 7) -- Notes to the Canterbury Tales

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• The first line means—'With regard to, or As to the first stock (or source), who was the father of gentilesse.'

  Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems

  Geoffrey Chaucer