noun. The condition of being gentle or of good birth; gentility.

noun. The state or quality of being gentle in manners or disposition; mildness of temper; sweetness of disposition; kindness; tenderness.

noun. Softness; freedom from roughness; mildness; delicacy: as, gentleness of touch.

noun. Ease; gradualness; absence of abruptness or steepness: as, the gentleness of an elevation or a slope.

noun. The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

noun. The state of being gentle.

noun. the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual

noun. acting in a manner that is gentle and mild and even-tempered

"Perhaps the quadruple prepositional phrases, which delay the word gentleness from being connected with murder."

gradient  manner  personal manner  slope  

cheerfulness  courtesy  delicacy  firmness  forbearance  

abnegation  abstinence  acceptance  affability  airiness