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English
Etymology
From mansuetude + -in- + -ous.
Adjective
mansuetudinous (comparative more mansuetudinous, superlative most mansuetudinous)
- Of, pertaining to, or characterized by mansuetude; mild; meek; gentle.
- 1990, D. Brown, Intertextual Dynamics within the Literary Group of Joyce, Lewis, Pound and Eliot, The Macmillan Press LTD, page 165 (A quotation of literary criticism surrounding James Joyce's exaration: Finnegan's Wake)
- You who so often consigned your distributory tidings of great joy into our never-too-late-to-love box, mansuetudinous manipulator!
- 2007, Iwan Wmffre, Breton Orthographies and Dialects Volume 1: The Twentieth-Century Orthography War in Brittany, Peter Lang AG, European Academic Publishers, page 108
- It may be that this was simply a mansuetudinous interpretation on the part of Mordiern.
- 1996, David Madsen, Memoirs of a Gnostic Dwarf, Dedalus, page 167
- Serapica was a man of remarkably mansuetudinous disposition, which is perhaps why Cardinal de' Medici had taken him into his employment.
- 1918, The Times, History of the War - Volume 16, Forms General Index, page 9
- 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.
- 1931, Brooks Atkinson, East of the Hudson, A. A. Knopf - New York, page 101
- Among the intelligentsia he was best known for his fervent but pointless monologues, or his mansuetudinous dialogues with himself.
- 1995, Lesley Henderson, Sarah M. Hall, Reference to World Literature - Volume 2, St. James Press, page 836
- His mansuetudinous retreat at the approach of his wife, Elvire (his behaviour evokes the henpecked husband rather than the romantic hero).