gentle
suomi-englanti sanakirjagentle englannista suomeksi
kiltti, herttainen
helliä
kesyttää
hellävarainen
vähittäinen, loiva
lempeä
sävyisä
aateloida
jalosukuinen, ylhäinen
Verbi
Substantiivi
gentle englanniksi
Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
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(quote-book)| title=(w)| chapter=3| url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W| passage=Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.
''a gentle horse''
Polite and respectful rather than rude.
Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.
1823, Walter Scott, ''Peveril of the Peak''
- "You are of gentle blood," she said (..)
1893-1897, (w) (editor), (w)
- British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple.
(RQ:Milton Of Education)
To become gentle.
2013, Kathryn L.M. Reynolds, ''Garland Roses'', Kathryn L.M. Reynolds ((ISBN)), page 226
- “She&39;s experienced a horrific and nasty scare and is in a state of shock, but otherwise she&39;s relatively okay.” Conrad replied, his tone at first grim (as he recalled what he&39;d seen in the family room) and then it gentled to a more doctorial tone as he directed his next comments to his patient.
To ennoble.
(RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew) For he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, / This day shall gentle his condition (..)
To break; to tame; to domesticate.
2008, Frank Leslie, ''The Killing Breed'', Penguin ((ISBN))
- Yakima could have tried to catch him, gentle him as Wolf had been gentled, but having two stallions in his cavvy would lead to a different kind of trouble.
1996, William C. Loring, ''An American Romantic-realist Abroad: Templeton Strong and His Music'', Scarecrow Press ((ISBN)), page 201
- A hornist, his playing gentled by perspective, is out of sight within the woods, but his notes are heard through or over the murmuring mix of bird song and breeze in leaves.
A person of high birth.
(RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew)
2012, Lizzie Stark, ''Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games'', Chicago Review Press ((ISBN)), page 43:
- While actual medieval societies were full of lots of peasants and a few rich and noble gentles, SCA personas tend to be nobles rather than commoners.
A maggot used as bait by anglers.
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(quote-book)
A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil.