mansuetudinous

English

Etymology

From mansuetude +‎ -in- +‎ -ous.

Adjective

mansuetudinous (comparative more mansuetudinous, superlative most mansuetudinous)

1. 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).