mansuetude

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See also: mansuétude

English

WOTD – 30 January 2009

Etymology

Via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French mansuetude or directly from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mansuētūdō, from mansuētus, perfect passive participle of mansuēscō (“I tame”), from manus (“hand”) + suēscō (“become accustomed”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

mansuetude (countable and uncountable, plural mansuetudes)

  1. (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.
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Translations

Portuguese

Noun

mansuetude f (plural mansuetudes)

  1. mansuetude; tameness

Synonyms

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