Middle English Dictionary Entry
mansuē̆tūde n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mansuē̆tūde n. |
| Etymology | L & OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Gentleness, meekness, humility.
Associated quotations
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.654 : The remedie agayns Ire is a vertu that men clepen Mansuetude, that is, debonairetee.
- c1400 Bible SNT(1) (Selw 108 L.1)1 Tim.6.11 : Bote þou þat art Goddes man..folewe þow ryȝtfulnesse & pyte, feiþ, charyte, pacyence, & mansuetude [L mansuetudinem].
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)82.292 (v.2:p.95) : The holi goste .. yiueth hem .. mansuetude or buxomnesse, for as it is seid .., 'Moyses was the moste meke man vpon erthe.'
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)1.87 : Men of Scythia..deputenge violence to men and mansuetude to women.
- a1500(a1471) Ashby APP (Cmb Mm.4.42)880 : Loke that ye kepe alway attemperance..Auoidyng al vengeance & displesance With al mansuetude conuenient.
- a1500(a1475) Ashby Dicta (Cmb Mm.4.42)205 : Obserue mekenesse in youre maundement With al benignite and mansuetude.
- a1500(a1475) Ashby Dicta (Cmb Mm.4.42)1177 : A feire speker with swete mansuetude [L Mansuetudo] Refreynethe grete noyes & displeasance.
- a1500 I haue nowe sett (Trin-C R.4.20)18 : Castell of clennes I hyr call, that beldith in beatitude, beyng as clene as clere crystall Whose meuynge is mansuetude.