mansuetude
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
mansuetude
- (archaic) Gentleness, tameness.
- 1647, Henry Hammond, Of Fraternal Admonition Or Correption (page 5)
- That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
- 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:
- Quo me rapis? Quo indeed. My whole conduct, meekness, mansuetude, voluntary abasement, astonishes me.
- 1647, Henry Hammond, Of Fraternal Admonition Or Correption (page 5)
- Italian: mansuetudine
- Portuguese: mansuetude, mansidão
- Russian: доброду́шие
- Spanish: caballerosidad
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