"gentlesome" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From gentle + -some.",
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      "form": "more gentlesome",
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      "form": "most gentlesome",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Jeremy Hoemsen, Okanagan University College, Bible Prophecies Revealed:",
          "text": "A timid and gentlesome frog approached her, gravely bowed in a groove below her flexed kneecap.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Liz Jensen, My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time:",
          "text": "'Yes, Else,' I said, my voice quiet & most gentlesome. “You are not mistaken, & then I raised my veil & smiled wide, wide, wide. [...]”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Bruce Olds, Raising Holy Hell:",
          "text": "Not that he weren't capable of a gentlesome word or a tender touch, but such as that come to him less natural than any living creature I ever seen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Ron Rash, The Caretaker:",
          "text": "Even more surprising was how he loved to rock Annie Mae, talk to her in the most gentlesome way.",
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        "Characterised or marked by gentleness; mild; tender."
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          "mild"
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          "tender",
          "tender"
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  "word": "gentlesome"
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        "2": "gentle",
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  "etymology_text": "From gentle + -some.",
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    {
      "form": "more gentlesome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most gentlesome",
      "tags": [
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Jeremy Hoemsen, Okanagan University College, Bible Prophecies Revealed:",
          "text": "A timid and gentlesome frog approached her, gravely bowed in a groove below her flexed kneecap.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Liz Jensen, My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time:",
          "text": "'Yes, Else,' I said, my voice quiet & most gentlesome. “You are not mistaken, & then I raised my veil & smiled wide, wide, wide. [...]”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Bruce Olds, Raising Holy Hell:",
          "text": "Not that he weren't capable of a gentlesome word or a tender touch, but such as that come to him less natural than any living creature I ever seen.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Ron Rash, The Caretaker:",
          "text": "Even more surprising was how he loved to rock Annie Mae, talk to her in the most gentlesome way.",
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        "Characterised or marked by gentleness; mild; tender."
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