Gallantise
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Gallantise is a verb meaning Alternative form of gallantize.
Meaning
Alternative form of gallantize.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) Gallantry.
Example Sentences
Gray-headed senate , and youth ' s gallantise, Graced not so much as only this device.
Go to then, once againe at this time let the gallantise and bravery of thy youth, and thy invincible arme, be made yet more famous and memorable, by some notable act in this spectacle."
This is even more the case in Painter's second volume, which focuses more closely on the subjects of love and courtship than on adventure: 'the matter moste specially therin comprised, treating of the courtly fashions and maners, and of the customes of love's gallantise, […]'
It happened not so in the Retort made by this Page to a certain PrivyCounsellor, who, notwithstanding his advanced Age and dignified Rank, gallantised all the young Girls he came near, yet not in that polite agreeable Manner, wherein a pleasant Turn of Irony renders a little Foolery sufferable, nay not altogether misbecoming in Persons of Gravity;
Word Forms
- gallantises
- gallantising
- gallantised
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gallantness, gallanthood, gallaunt, galliardness, galliardise, manship.
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