mense
noun
propriety; discretion.
menseful
-
a word derived from
mense.
Example Sentences
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You used to like me; and you always seemed A menseful body: and I lippened to you.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
They mind what's menseful same as fowks do.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman
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
But you see he's succeeded; he's the earl now, and Lord Liftore -- and a menseful, broad shouldered man to the boot of the bargain.
From The Marquis of Lossie by George MacDonald
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
