"gentleman-like" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1596, Thomas Nashe, “The life and godly education from his childhood of that thrice famous clarke, and morthie Orator and Poet Gabriell Haruey”, in Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter:",
          "text": "Deuinitie (the Heauen of all Artes) for a while drew his thoughts vnto it, but shortly after the world the flesh and the diuell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more Gentleman-like lustie cut; whereupon hee fell to morrall Epistling and Poetrie.",
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          "ref": "c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 301, column 2:",
          "text": "[…] and ſo wee wept: and there was the firſt Gentleman-like teares that euer we ſhed.",
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          "ref": "1778 May 14, Ignatius Sancho, “Letter LXII. To Miss C⸻.”, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. […], volume I, London: […] J. Nichols: And sold by J. Dodsley, […], published 1782, pages 195–196:",
          "text": "I proteſt, it is to me the moſt difficult of things to write to one of your female geniuſes—there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may ſo call it), an eaſy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like—faſhionable—careleſs—ſee-ſaw of dialogue—which I know no more of than you do of cruelty.",
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          "ref": "1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 132:",
          "text": "“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.”",
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          "ref": "1596, Thomas Nashe, “The life and godly education from his childhood of that thrice famous clarke, and morthie Orator and Poet Gabriell Haruey”, in Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter:",
          "text": "Deuinitie (the Heauen of all Artes) for a while drew his thoughts vnto it, but shortly after the world the flesh and the diuell with-drewe him from that, and needes he would be of a more Gentleman-like lustie cut; whereupon hee fell to morrall Epistling and Poetrie.",
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          "ref": "c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 301, column 2:",
          "text": "[…] and ſo wee wept: and there was the firſt Gentleman-like teares that euer we ſhed.",
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          "ref": "1778 May 14, Ignatius Sancho, “Letter LXII. To Miss C⸻.”, in Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. […], volume I, London: […] J. Nichols: And sold by J. Dodsley, […], published 1782, pages 195–196:",
          "text": "I proteſt, it is to me the moſt difficult of things to write to one of your female geniuſes—there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may ſo call it), an eaſy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like—faſhionable—careleſs—ſee-ſaw of dialogue—which I know no more of than you do of cruelty.",
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          "ref": "1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 132:",
          "text": "“You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.”",
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