Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Dignity of conduct; propriety; decorum; sense of honor; good manners.
- n. Ornament; credit: as, he's a mense to his family.
- To grace; ornament; set off or be a credit to: as, the pictures mense the room.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility.
- v. Prov. Eng. & Scot. To grace.
Etymologies
- From earlier mensk, from Middle English menske ("courtesy, honour"), from Old Norse menska ("humanity"). Cognate with Old English menniscu ("the human condition, humanity"). More at mennish, mensch. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Voorsitter - In die ANC se beleidsdokument "Gereed om te regeer" word daar verklaar, en ek haal aan: "Alle mense is geregtig op grond en behuising”
“Hierdie mense is toe herhaaldelik gewaarsku om uit die plafon te klim, maar sonder enige reaksie.”
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976
“Evidence for a September delivery comes from stray reference in the Inventory, separate from the list of all the other goods allocated to Mary, referring to another tapestry from the king's storehouses: the "folowing are delyvered to the ladye marye her grace vse mense Septembr anno primo Regis Edwarde sexti.”
“As Bedingfield pointed out, the situation of Elizabeth needing a household in order to pay for her own imprisonment meant that, as her goaler, he could not completely isolate her: "there ys an evident waye that I cannot avoyde by enye possible mense, butte that daylye & howerlye the sayde Parye maye have & gyve intelligence" to the princess. 185 It is little wonder that Bedingfield begged to be relieved of the impossible task.”
“Vir hulle will ek sê, "moenie die wil van die mense onderskat nie.”
“Die gevolg van hierdie afsettings is ongekende lyding op sosiale en gesondheids vlakke, wat ook onskuldidge kinders en weerlose ou mense raak.”
“Die mense wat grondhervorming probeer vertraag of wil weg wens moet hulle dus maar gereed maak vir 'n vasberade regering wat nie' n duim gaan toegee om sy doelwit vir 'n beter lewe vir almal te verseker nie.”
“Gegewe die kompleksiteit van grondhervorming en die gepaardgaande sosiale en politieke verwagtinge, moet die belangrikheid daarvan vir die groot meerderheid mense in die land, nie onderskat word nie.”
“Hulle is ons naionale trots en geniet die steun van al die Suid Afrika se mense.”
Speech by Dr Gerhard Koornhof during the Defence Department Budget Vote Debate
“Sedert 1994 het die ANC beheerde regering baie gedoen om die ekonomie van die land tot voordeel van die meerderheid van die mense, naamlik die armes, te transformeer.”
Speech by Maxwell Moss during the Transport budget vote debate
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