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mansuetudinous

mansuetudinous adjective: of, pertaining to, or characterized by mansuetude; mild; meek; gentle.

Adjective

mansuetudinous (comparative more mansuetudinous, superlative most mansuetudinous)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by mansuetude; mild; meek; gentle.
    • [Y]ou who so often consigned your distributory tidings of great joy into our nevertoolatetolove box, mansuetudinous manipulator, […]1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 472
    • It may be that this was simply a mansuetudinous interpretation on the part of Mordiern.2007, Iwan Wmffre, Breton Orthographies and Dialects Volume 1: The Twentieth-Century Orthography War in Brittany, Peter Lang AG, European Academic Publishers, page 108

Examples of mansuetudinous in a sentence

  • Serapica was a man of remarkably mansuetudinous disposition, which is perhaps why Cardinal de' Medici had taken him into his employment.1996, David Madsen, Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, Dedalus, page 167
  • Among the intelligentsia he was best known for his fervent but pointless monologues, or his mansuetudinous dialogues with himself.1931, Brooks Atkinson, East of the Hudson, A. A. Knopf - New York, page 101
  • His mansuetudinous retreat at the approach of his wife, Elvire (his behaviour evokes the henpecked husband rather than the romantic hero).1995, Lesley Henderson, Sarah M. Hall, Reference to World Literature - Volume 2, St. James Press, page 836

Forms of mansuetudinous

comparativemore mansuetudinous
superlativemost mansuetudinous

Origin of mansuetudinous

From Latin mansuētūdin- + -ous, from oblique stem of mansuētūdō, from mansuēscō + -tūdō, from man(us) + suēscō. By surface analysis, mansuetude + -ous.

Questions about mansuetudinous

What does mansuetudinous mean?
Mansuetudinous means of, pertaining to, or characterized by mansuetude; mild; meek; gentle.
How do you use mansuetudinous in a sentence?
Serapica was a man of remarkably mansuetudinous disposition, which is perhaps why Cardinal de' Medici had taken him into his employment.
What part of speech is mansuetudinous?
Mansuetudinous is an adjective.

Words near mansuetudinous in the dictionary

  1. manstress
  2. manstresses
  3. mansuete
  4. mansuetude
  5. mansuetudes
  6. mansuetudinous
  7. Mansur
  8. Mansura
  9. Mansure
  10. Mansures
  11. Mansurs

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