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man·sue·tude
[man-swi-tood, -tyood] Pronunciation Key
[man-swi-tood, -tyood] Pronunciation Key –noun
| mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love. |
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L mānsuétūdō tameness, mildness, equiv. to mānsué-, base of mānsuéscere to become tame, mild (man(us) hand + suéscere to become accustomed) + -tūdō -tude
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| man·sue·tude
(mān'swĭ-tōōd', -tyōōd') Pronunciation Key
n. Gentleness of manner; mildness. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin mānsuētūdō, from mānsuētus, past participle of mānsuēscere, to tame : manus, hand; see man-2 in Indo-European roots + suēscere, to accustom; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.] |
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mansuetude
mansuetude
"tameness, gentleness, mildness," c.1386, from L. mansuetudo "tameness," from mansuetus, pp. of mansuescere "to tame," lit. "to accustom to the hand," from manus "hand" (see manual) + suescere "to accustom, habituate," from PIE *swdh-sko-, from base *s(w)e- (see idiom).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Mansuetude
Man"sue*tude\, n. [L. mansuetudo: cf. F. mansu['e]tude.] Tameness; gentleness; mildness. [Archaic]
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