单词 | mansuetude |
释义 | mansuetuden. Gentleness, meekness, docility. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > meekness or mildness > [noun] mildnessOE meeknessc1175 mildshipa1200 meekshipc1225 stillness?c1225 mildheadc1300 mansuetudec1390 mansuetiea1500 placidity1619 placidness1654 milkiness1692 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > [noun] sweetnessc1000 mildnessOE lithenessc1175 mildshipa1200 softnessa1200 mildheadc1300 softheadc1350 mansuetudec1390 tendresse1390 tendernessa1400 gentleness?c1400 mansuetiea1500 suavitude1512 treatableness1526 placability1531 lenity1548 pleasableness1556 mollity1562 fair1599 lenitude1627 placableness1647 unaggressiveness1870 c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 654 The remedie agayns Ire is a vertu that men clepen Mansuetude, that is debonairetee. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 87 (MED) Men of Scythia..deputenge violence to men and mansuetude to women. a1500 (a1471) G. Ashby Active Policy Prince 880 in Poems (1899) 40 Auoidyng al vengeance & displesance With al mansuetude conuenient. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 19v Thair was worschip with welth and valitude... Thair was meiknes weil mixt with mansuetude. 1654 R. Aylett Brides Ornaments in Divine & Moral Speculations iv. 221 Certain his breast all vertues doth contain, Who hath this gentle vertue mansuetude. 1681 P. Rycaut tr. B. Gracián y Morales Critick 136 A Lion..whose fierceness had been lately turned to the Mansitude of a Lamb. 1785 G. Steevens Let. 12 Apr. in T. Warton Corr. (1995) iv. 522 The most endearing instance of the mansuetude of Chiron will be found in his behaviour when the Argo sailed near the coast on which he lived. 1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire II. 222 Their mansuetude and readiness to concur in all measures adopted by the government. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 121 Our Lord Himself, made up of mansuetude. 1882 Catholic World Aug. 609 The best guarantee of the mansuetude of the Chileans is the reputation of Admiral Lynch. 1912 Star 22 June 2 But endow him with the inexhaustible learning, the philosophy, the mansuetude, the wit of M. Bergeret.., and you have a totally different conception of his character. 1930 H. Belloc Richelieu ii. i. 137 All that appeared on the surface was a Christian mansuetude. 1993 P. O'Brian Wine-dark Sea iv. 77 Self-hatred usually seems more likely to generate hatred of others..than mansuetude. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1390 |
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