mansuetude

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
17
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈman.swɪ.tjuːd/ (UK)
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/ˈman.swɪ.tjuːd/ (UK) · /mænˈsuət(j)ud/ (US)

Definition of mansuetude

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Gentleness, tameness.
    “That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.”
    “Quo me rapis? Quo indeed. My whole conduct, meekness, mansuetude, voluntary abasement, astonishes me.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

Via Middle French mansuetude or directly from Latin mansuētūdō, from mansuētus, perfect passive participle of mansuēscō (“to tame”), from manus (“hand”) + suēscō (“become accustomed”).

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