mansuetude

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  1. noun Gentleness of manner; mildness.

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  • Far from ridiculously and unnecessarily aggressive, mansuetude (MAN-swi-tood) means mildness, gentleness, and even tameness.
  • Would anybody really wish to get rid of terms like mansuetude (an almost onomatopoeic word for gentleness) or niddering (a jellyish synonym for cowardly)? —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • The divine mansuetude, the human and brotherly sympathy of the Christ, have not been equalled since the early days of the Cristo della Moneta_. —  The Later Works of Titian
  • The system has no room for it; even as it has no room for clemency, mansuetude; forbearance towards the weak. —  From a Cornish Window A New Edition
  • To one so much a stranger to the mansuetude of —  A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mānsuētūdō, from mānsuētus, past participle of mānsuēscere, to tame : manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots + suēscere, to accustom; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English mansuetude = Old French mansuetume, French mansuétude = Italian mansuetudine, from Latin mansuetudo, tameness, mildness, from mansuetus, tame, mild: see mansuete. Cf. consuetude, desuetude.
 

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