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      "phonetic": [
        "ˈʤɛntəl",
        "ˈʤɛnəl"
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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English gentil (“courteous, noble”), from Old French gentil (“high-born, noble”), from Latin gentilis (“of the same family or clan”), from gens (“ clan”). Doublet of gentile and genteel."
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              "mean": "Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.\nStuart is a gentle man; he would never hurt you."
            },
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              "mean": "Soft and mild rather than hard or severe.\n1963,  Margery Allingham,  chapter 3, in  The China Governess‎:Here the stripped panelling was warmly gold and the pictures, mostly of the English school, were mellow and gentle in the afternoon light.\nI felt something touch my shoulder; it was gentle and a little slimy."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Docile and easily managed.\nWe had a gentle swim in the lake.\na gentle horse"
            },
            {
              "mean": "Gradual rather than steep or sudden.\nThe walks in this area have a gentle incline."
            },
            {
              "mean": "Polite and respectful rather than rude.\nHe gave me a gentle reminder that we had to hurry up."
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              "mean": "(archaic) Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.\n1822,  ,  Peveril of the Peak. , volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh:    Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:\"You are of gentle blood,\" she said  \n1893-1897, Charles Kendall Adams (editor), Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia\nBritish society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple.\n,  ,  Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib,   Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC:the studies wherein our noble and gentle youth ought to bestow their time"
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          "name": "Verb",
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              "mean": "(intransitive) To become gentle.\n2013,  Kathryn L.M. Reynolds,  Garland Roses, Kathryn L.M. Reynolds, →ISBN, page 226:“She's experienced a horrific and nasty scare and is in a state of shock, but otherwise she's relatively okay.” Conrad replied, his tone at first grim (as he recalled what he'd seen in the family room) and then it gentled to a more doctorial tone as he directed his next comments to his patient."
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              "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To ennoble.\nc. 1590–1592 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Taming of the Shrew”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :  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"
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              "mean": "(transitive, animal husbandry) To break; to tame; to domesticate.\n2008,  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."
            },
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              "mean": "(transitive) To soothe; to calm; to make gentle.\n1996,  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."
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          "name": "Noun",
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              "mean": "(archaic) A person of high birth.\nc. 1590–1592 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  “The Taming of the Shrew”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Gentles, methinks you frown.\n2012,  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."
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              "mean": "(fishing) A maggot used as bait by anglers.\n1846,  Douglas William Jerrold,  “The History of St. Giles and St. James”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles\n1983,  The Fisherman Who Laughed, page 67:Years ago, on Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, the recognised bait for garfish were `gentles', a genteel word for maggots, which were especially grown for gar fishermen."
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            {
              "mean": "A trained falcon, or falcon-gentil."
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