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man⋅sue⋅tude

  [man-swi-tood, -tyood]
–noun
mildness; gentleness: the mansuetude of Christian love.
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Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L mānsuētūdō tameness, mildness, equiv. to mānsuē-, base of mānsuēscere to become tame, mild (man(us) hand + suēscere to become accustomed) + -tūdō -tude
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man·sue·tude   (mān'swĭ-tōōd', -tyōōd')   
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 
"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
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