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English
Etymology
From Latin dulcifer (“containing sweetness”), from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Equivalent to dulce + -i- + -ferous.
Adjective
dulciferous (comparative more dulciferous, superlative most dulciferous)
- (rare, dated) Having a pleasant disposition.
1892, Israel Zangwill, The Grandchildren of the Ghetto:It put a touch of acid into his dulciferous mildness.
1911, James Ira Deese Miller, A Guide Into the South, volume I, Atlanta: Index Printing Company, page 35:He may roil your mind with his collusions but I will elaqueate your dulciferous egoity when your heart dehisces to the epiphoras which house no elench.