Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Gentleness of manner; mildness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Tameness; habitual mildness or gentleness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Archaic Tameness; gentleness; mildness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic
Gentleness ,tameness .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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I am also enjoying sounding out your word of the day ... "mansuetude" which is also slow and gentle like its meaning ...
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It gives a "mansuetude" (new word for me) to the chill of winter.
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It gives a "mansuetude" new word for me to the chill of winter.
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I am also enjoying sounding out your word of the day..."mansuetude" which is also slow and gentle like its meaning...
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Paul, I vaticinate that the mansuetude of your response will bring out the best of my muliebrity.
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It is apodeictic that the caliginosity of the agrestic embrangle periapts with mansuetude.
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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.
A malison on the poor of spirit. Angry Professor 2008
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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.
Archive 2008-10-01 Angry Professor 2008
jaime_d commented on the word mansuetude
from the Ring and the Book.
October 1, 2007
logophile commented on the word mansuetude
as if your "manner" is falling into "desuetude"
January 28, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word mansuetude
See a usage note on hemicrania.
February 27, 2008
RevBrently commented on the word mansuetude
From p. 14 of Patrick Leigh Fermor's "A Time to Keep Silence":
Their eyelids were always downcast; and, if now and then they were raised, no treacherous glint appeared, nothing but a sedulously cultivated calmness, withdrawal and mansuetude and occasionally an expression of remote and burnt-out melancholy.
January 21, 2014
qms commented on the word mansuetude
With filial love the bro is imbued;
To help his old Ma’s his habitude.
And though it require
He greatly perspire
That noble damp is man sweat, dude.
December 6, 2014