mollitude
/ˈmɒlɪtjuːd/ /ˈmɒlɪtʃuːd/Now rare
noun
Softness; effeminacy; luxuriousness.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in John Rainolds (1549–1607), theologian and college head. From classical Latin mollitūdō from mollis soft + -tūdō. Compare French mollitude.
- Broadmoor
- broadness
- broad pendant
- broad pennant
- broad-ranging
- broad reach
- Broads
- broadscale
- broadsheet
- broadsheet newspaper
- broad-shouldered
- broadside
- broadside on
- broad-spectrum
- broadsword
- broadtail
- broadway
- Broadwell ring
- broast
- Brobdingnagian
- space club
- space colony
- spacecraft
- space curve
- space debris