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Dec 5, 2014
This week's themeWords derived from body parts This week's words cordate amanuensis impedimenta spleen mansuetude This week's comments AWADmail 649 Next week's theme Illustrated words ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargmansuetude
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
noun: Gentleness; meekness.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin mansuescere (to make tame: to accustom to handling), from manus
(hand) + suescere (to become accustomed). Ultimately from the Indo-European
root man- (hand), which is also the source of manual, manage, maintain,
manicure, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, command,
manque,
amanuensis,
legerdemain, and
mortmain.
Earliest documented use: 1390.
USAGE:
"Presently, with the blessing, you will see Padeen's face return to its
usual benevolent mansuetude." Patrick O'Brian; The Letter of Marque; HarperCollins; 1988. "She had heard me and returned to me and saved me; embraced me, in her might as much as her mansuetude." Michael Nesmith; The Long, Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora; St. Martin's Press; 1998. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894)
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