Mansuetude
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈman.swɪ.tjuːd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Mansuetude is a noun meaning (archaic) Gentleness, tameness.
Meaning
(archaic) Gentleness, tameness.
Example Sentences
Quo me rapis? Quo indeed. My whole conduct, meekness, mansuetude, voluntary abasement, astonishes me.
That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
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.
Word Forms
- mansuetudes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gentle-heartedness, gentlesse, semperlenity, suavitude, gentleness, easiness.
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