mansuetudinous

comparative more mansuetudinous · superlative most mansuetudinous

1. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by mansuetude; mild; meek; gentle.

   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

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   [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

   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

   to themselves for what they deemed to be a particularly mansuetudinous provision for the Allies, but as a matter of fact they were perfectly well aware that this undertaking could not be made binding on the enemy.

   1918, The Times, History of the War - Volume 16, Forms General Index, page 9

   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