mansuetude
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
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
Example Sentences
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Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school graduates.
From Time Magazine Archive
While Barbara was swimming to meet the dawn, Miltoun was bathing in those waters of mansuetude and truth which roll from wall to wall in the British House of Commons.
From The Patrician by Galsworthy, John
The divine mansuetude, the human and brotherly sympathy of the Christ, have not been equalled since the early days of the Cristo della Moneta.
From The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude
It includes, unless the writer has misread it, an element of greater mansuetude and a less perturbed reflectiveness.
From The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude
He was rubicund, and his little eyes looked me over with priestly mansuetude.
From Romance by Conrad, Joseph
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