mansuetude
See also: mansuétude
English edit
Etymology edit
Via Middle French mansuetude or directly from Latin mansuētūdō, from mansuētus, perfect passive participle of mansuēscō (“I tame”), from manus (“hand”) + suēscō (“become accustomed”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mansuetude (countable and uncountable, plural mansuetudes)
- (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.
- 2008 October 8, Angry Professor, “A malison on the poor of spirit.”, in A Gentleman's C[1]:
- With mansuetude (compossible with my muliebrity), I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
Translations edit
gentleness, meekness
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Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: man‧su‧e‧tu‧de
Noun edit
mansuetude f (plural mansuetudes)
- mansuetude; tameness
- Synonym: mansidão