mollities

This prevalence of "mollities" astonishes the anthropologist, who is apt to consider pederasty the growth of luxury and the especial product of great and civilised cities, unnecessary and therefore unknown to simple savagery, where the births of both sexes are about equal and female infanticide is not practiced.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

This prevalence of “mollities” astonishes the anthropologist, who is apt to consider pederasty the growth of luxury and the especial product of great and civilised cities, unnecessary and therefore unknown to simple savagery, where the births of both sexes are about equal and female infanticide is not practiced.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Glandis enim mollities frictione induratur, dehinc coitus tristis, tardus parumque vehemens.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Pertinax res barbaries est, fateor: sed minus potent tamen, quam illa mollities et persuasa prudentia literarum, si ratione caret, sapientiae virtutisque specie mortales misere circumducens.

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

[Footnote 258: 'Cum jam in soli faciem paulatim mollities siccata duresceret, celatamque longâ voracitate tellurem sol insuetus afflaret.'

The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator Senator Cassiodorus 1872

Verentur namque ne illius cupiditas, ne ambitio, ne (quod gravius) mollities filialis Christianam religionem in praeceps trahat. "

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 William Hickling Prescott 1827

Wherein I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language: _Ipsa mollities_. {

Milton's Comus John Milton 1641