A translation of the French gentilhomme, one who belongs to the gens or stock. According to the Romanlaw, gens-men, or gentlemen, were those only who had a familyname, were born of free parents, had no slave in their ancestral line, and had never been degraded to a lower rank.
A gentleman of the four outs. A vulgar upstart, with-out manners, with-outwit, with-outmoney, and with-out credit.
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