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n. The state of being gentle.

n. The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

n. The condition of being gentle or of good birth; gentility.

n. The state or quality of being gentle in manners or disposition; mildness of temper; sweetness of disposition; kindness; tenderness.

n. Softness; freedom from roughness; mildness; delicacy: as, gentleness of touch.

n. Ease; gradualness; absence of abruptness or steepness: as, the gentleness of an elevation or a slope.

n. the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual

n. acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered

"Perhaps the quadruple prepositional phrases, which delay the word gentleness from being connected with murder."

slope    gradient    personal manner    manner   

gentility    mildness    moderateness    gradualness    slightness    easiness   

tenderness    humility    sweetness    forbearance    firmness    mildness    sincerity    tact    moderation    courtesy