What does mansuetude mean?
Mansuetude means (archaic) Gentleness, tameness..
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/ˈman.swɪ.tjuːd/ · noun
(archaic) Gentleness, tameness..
That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
Quo me rapis? Quo indeed. My whole conduct, meekness, mansuetude, voluntary abasement, astonishes me.
With mansuetude (compossible with my muliebrity), I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
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Mansuetude means (archaic) Gentleness, tameness..
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That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
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