Pronounced: ploo-TOE-nee-uhn, adj
Notes: I didn’t know all of the meanings of this word, but each was logical
Yesterday’s word
The word mansuetude is “the quality of state of being gentle; meekness; tameness”
First usage
Our word came into English in the middle to late 1300s
Background / Comments
Of the definitions above, I find “gentle” and “meekness” to be praiseworthy traits; I am not so sure about “tameness”. Nevertheless, this word is a good one to know. Our word came from the Latin verb mansuescere (to tame), which came from the noun manus (hand) and the verb suescere (to accustom; to become accustomed).
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