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mildheartedness

mildheartedness noun: the quality of being mild (gentle, not easily angered).

Noun

mildheartedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being mild (gentle, not easily angered).
    • David for his meekness and mildheartedness was pleasing to God and was chosen king, so that God Himself spake thus concerning him, […]1881, Ælfric, translated by Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric's Lives of Saints, page 341
    • We shall not readily ascribe the change to any mildheartedness of the lords.1897, F. W. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond

Origin of mildheartedness

Learned borrowing from Old English mildheortnes, intended to render the latter in textual translations. Synchronically mildhearted + -ness.

Questions about mildheartedness

What does mildheartedness mean?
Mildheartedness means the quality of being mild (gentle, not easily angered).
What part of speech is mildheartedness?
Mildheartedness is a noun.

Words near mildheartedness in the dictionary

  1. mildewproofed
  2. mildewproofing
  3. mildewproofs
  4. mildews
  5. mildewy
  6. mildheartedness
  7. mildish
  8. mildlier
  9. mildliest
  10. mildly
  11. Mildmay

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