mansuetude

[ man-swi-tood, -tyood ]

noun

mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love.

Origin of mansuetude

1350–1400; Middle English <Latin mānsuētūdō tameness, mildness, equivalent to mānsuē-, base of mānsuēscere to become tame, mild (man(us) hand + suēscere to become accustomed) + -tūdō-tude

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How to use mansuetude in a sentence

He was positively sheeplike in his mansuetude, whereas I had intended to make him a stern avenger of virtue.
A Top-Floor Idyl | George van Schaick
He was rubicund, and his little eyes looked me over with priestly mansuetude.
Romance | Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
The system has no room for it; even as it has no room for clemency, mansuetude; forbearance towards the weak.
From a Cornish Window | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In any case, the mansuetude of the good emperor was in this respect shielded from all reproach.
English Conferences of Ernest Renan | Ernest Renan
It includes, unless the writer has misread it, an element of greater mansuetude and a less perturbed reflectiveness.
The Later works of Titian | Claude Phillips

British Dictionary definitions for mansuetude

mansuetude

/ (ˈmænswɪˌtjuːd) /

noun

archaic gentleness or mildness

Origin of mansuetude

C14: from Latin mansuētūdō, from mansuētus, past participle of mansuēscere to make tame by handling, from manus hand + suescēre to train

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