... true morals is unselfishness. gentlemanliness came to refer to outward behavior. A man who behaved like a gentleman was a gentle man. In his description of a gentleman, Cardinal Newman goes ... to make everyone at What is a gentleman? A gentleman is a gentle man. In this connection, the word “gentle” means “noble”, as it does in the phrase “of gentle birth”. So, originally, a gentleman ... “carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a jolt to the others – all class of opinions, or collision of feelings, restraints, or suspicion, or gloom, or resentment; his great concern is...