Meanings
plural mansuetudes
- archaiccountableuncountableGentleness, tameness.
Quo me rapis? Quo indeed. My whole conduct, meekness, mansuetude, voluntary abasement, astonishes me.
1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain2 more examples
That I use all mildness or mansuetude in admonishing; the angry passionate correption being rather apt to provoke, than to amend.
1647, Henry Hammond, Of Fraternal Admonition Or Correption, page 5With mansuetude (compossible with my muliebrity), I condemn those niddering, olid morons who, in caliginosity of understanding, vilipend our English by attempting to exuviate words for which they cannot see any present custom.
2008 October 8, Angry Professor, “A malison on the poor of spirit.”, in A Gentleman's C
Origin
- Latinmansuētūdō
- Middle Frenchmansuetude
- Englishmansuetude
Via Middle French mansuetude or directly from Latin mansuētūdō, from mansuētus, perfect passive participle of mansuēscō (“to tame”), from manus (“hand”) + suēscō (“become accustomed”).
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Catalan mansuetud
- mansuetudgentleness, meekness
Italian mansuetudine
- mansuetudinegentleness, meekness
Polish łagodność, delikatność
- łagodnośćgentleness, meekness
- delikatnośćgentleness, meekness
Portuguese mansuetude, mansidão
- mansuetudegentleness, meekness
- mansidãogentleness, meekness
Russian доброду́шие
- доброду́шие (dobrodúšije)gentleness, meekness
Spanish caballerosidad
- caballerosidadgentleness, meekness
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mansuetude. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mansuetude
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