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Webster 1913 Edition

Gently

Gen′tly

,

adv.

In a gentle manner.

My mistress

gently

chides the fault I made.

Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gently

GEN'TLY

,

adv.

Softly; meekly; mildly; with tenderness.

My mistress gently chides the fault I made.

1.

Without violence, roughness or asperity.