gallantise

English

Verb

gallantise (third-person singular simple present gallantises, present participle gallantising, simple past and past participle gallantised)

1. Alternative form of gallantize
   • 1756, John Kelly, The Peruvian Tales:

     It happened not so in the Retort made by this Page to a certain PrivyCounsellor, who, notwithstanding his advanced Age and dignified Rank, gallantised all the young Girls he came near, yet not in that polite agreeable Manner, wherein a pleasant Turn of Irony renders a little Foolery sufferable, nay not altogether misbecoming in Persons of Gravity;

   • 1882, W.B. Guinee, “Talbot's Folly”, in Tinsley's Magazine, volume 30, page 260:

     What were the squabbles of that gate-porter and his wife to the disputes which ensued when Mr. Bull, after flirting his full with Miss India, after diverting himself with Miss Australia, after gallantising it with Miss Canada, and other members of his extensive seraglio, came home, and, hanging his fiddle behind the door, proceeded to exercise his marital privileges by loading her that was nearest, and should be dearest, to him with chains, lashing her with scorpions, and behaving with the cruelty of a stepfather to her beloved and patriotic offspring?

Noun

gallantise (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Gallantry.
   • 1604, Josuah. Silvester (translation of Guillaume du Bartas), The Divine Weeks of the World's Birth:

     Gray-headed senate , and youth ' s gallantise, Graced not so much as only this device.

   • 1850, Clement Clarke Moore, George Castriot, Surnamed Scanderbeg, King of Albania:

     Go to then, once againe at this time let the gallantise and bravery of thy youth, and thy invincible arme, be made yet more famous and memorable, by some notable act in this spectacle."

   • 1989, Caroline Lucas, Writing for women: the example of woman as reader in Elizavethan romance, page 40:

     This is even more the case in Painter's second volume, which focuses more closely on the subjects of love and courtship than on adventure: 'the matter moste specially therin comprised, treating of the courtly fashions and maners, and of the customes of love's gallantise, […] '