Crossword clues for mansuetude
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mansuetude \Man"sue*tude\, n. [L. mansuetudo: cf. F. mansu['e]tude.] Tameness; gentleness; mildness. [Archaic]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"tameness, gentleness, mildness," late 14c., from Latin mansuetudo "tameness, mildness, gentleness," noun of state from past participle stem of mansuescere "to tame," literally "to accustom to the hand," from manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)) + suescere "to accustom, habituate," from PIE *swdh-sko-, from *swedh- (see sodality), extended form of root *s(w)e- (see idiom).
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) gentleness, tameness.
Usage examples of "mansuetude".
CHAPTER IV While Barbara was swimming to meet the dawn, Miltoun was bathing in those waters of mansuetude and truth which roll from wall to wall in the British House of Commons.
They gave courteous smiles as they rose from their morning table, nodding to the waiters and the other guests, but when they felt themselves to be unobserved, their mansuetude faded and expressions of the utmost dolour fell upon them.
You are safe, dear old man, you are safe, temporarily, in the mansuetude of our care, Julie said.
It stands in the history of the present time as a high school for the civility and mansuetude of the people.
Believe this and it surely follows, as concave implies convex, that by daily converse and association with these great ones we take their breeding, their manners, earn their magnanimity, make ours their gifts of courtesy, unselfishness, mansuetude, high seated pride, scorn of pettiness, wholesome plentiful jovial laughter.