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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Gentleness of manner; mildness.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Tameness; habitual mildness or gentleness.

Wiktionary

  1. n. archaic Gentleness, tameness.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Archaic Tameness; gentleness; mildness.

Etymologies

  1. Via Middle French mansuetude or directly from Latin mansuētūdō, from mansuētus, perfect passive participle of mansuēscō ("I tame"), from manus ("hand") + suēscō ("become accustomed"). (Wiktionary)
  2. 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “I am also enjoying sounding out your word of the day ... "mansuetude" which is also slow and gentle like it's meaning ...”

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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 it's meaning...”

    mansuetude - French Word-A-Day

  • “It gives a "mansuetude" new word for me to the chill of winter.”

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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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  • “Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 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.”

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  • “To this religion of such charming mansuetude whenever it has the upper hand, a Protestant engineer named Gerard is converted by puerile arguments which in any other domain than the theological would seem to be the divagations of a lunatic; and the Cure Bonnet proclaims the necessity of passive obedience by the masses to the”

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  • “Princely and naturall mansuetude then of my merite.”

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Words with the same meaning

  1. tameness
  1. gentleness
  1. mildness

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  4. bluffer
  5. whist-player
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  2. tea-drinker
  3. complainer
  4. bed-wetting
  5. theorizer
  1. sottishness
  2. ear-element
  3. tractability
  4. unpunctuality
  5. costiveness
  1. terribleness
  2. significancy
  3. trickiness
  4. dilatoriness
  5. church-goers
  1. pleasingness
  2. go-as-you-please
  3. tactfulness
  4. weightiness
  5. shamefacedness

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