mansuetude arch.
(ˈmænswɪtjuːd)
Also 6 mansuetud, -swetude, 7 mansitude, -sutude.
[ad. L. mansuētūdo, f. mansuētus: see mansuete and -tude. Cf. F. mansuétude (from 13th c.; earlier mansuetume).]
Gentleness, meekness.
| c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶580 The remedye agayns Ire is a vertu that men clepen Mansuetude, that is Debonairetee. c 1460 Ashby Active Policy 880 Auoidyng al vengeance & displesance With al mansuetude conuenient. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 97 b, Mansuetude or myldnes. 1681 Rycaut tr. Gracian's Critick 136 A Lion..whose fierceness had been lately turned to the Mansitude of a Lamb. 1799 W. Tooke View Russian Emp. II. 222 Their mansuetude and readiness to concur in all measures adopted by the government. 1869 Browning Ring & Bk. viii. 660 Our Lord Himself, made all of mansuetude. |