gentle adj. (the senses ‘well born’, ‘kind’, ‘not violent, mild’ are well represented in S.)
1.
used in polite address
or as a complimentary epithet
Gent. I. ii. 14
“What think'st thou of
the
Proteus?,”
II. i. 118
“I thank you,
servant,”
III. i. 14
“your daughter,”
Cæs. III. ii. 78
“You gentle
Romans.”
2.
tame H5 III. vii. 58, H8 V. iii. 22.
