Gent vs Gradual - What's the difference?
gent | gradual |
(obsolete) Noble; well-bred, courteous; graceful.
* Chaucer
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.ix:
(obsolete) neat; pretty; elegant
* Spenser
Proceeding by steps or small degrees; advancing step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow.
* Milton
(Roman Catholic Church) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
(Roman Catholic Church) A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
As a proper noun gent
is or gent can be ghent.As an adjective gradual is
proceeding by steps or small degrees; advancing step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow.As a noun gradual is
(roman catholic church) an antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.gent
English
Etymology 1
From gentleman .Etymology 2
From (etyl) gent, ultimately from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- A knight [who] was fair and gent .
- He lou'd, as was his lot, a Ladie gent , / That him againe lou'd in the least degree [...].
- Her body gent and small.
gradual
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Alternative forms
* graduall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- a gradual''' increase of knowledge; a '''gradual decline
- Creatures animate with gradual life / Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man.