mense
noun
propriety; discretion.
menseful
-
a word derived from
mense.
Example Sentences
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Take the following as examples: "Fwok sud aye be menseful, an' menseful amang fwok."
From Wrestling and Wrestlers: Biographical Sketches of Celebrated Athletes of the Northern Ring; to Which is Added Notes on Bull and Badger Baiting by Sidney Gilpin
Then Joe thought to himself, "Come, come, we are getting back to our own menseful way again."
From The Squire of Sandal-Side A Pastoral Romance by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
You used to like me; and you always seemed A menseful body: and I lippened to you.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Wha's she?" he said, turning to his host; and, when he had been told, "Ay," says he, "she looks menseful.
From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
They mind what's menseful same as fowks do.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman
