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1. The quality or state of being gentle; meekness, tameness: Lynn will always remember her father who had a mansuetude that was quite natural for him because he had a quiet and soothing voice.
2. Gentleness and mildness: Some Christian believers tend to show a mansuetude of love for others by kindly listening to their questions, difficulties, or problems.
3. Etymology: from Latin mansuetudo, "tameness"; from mansuetus, "tamed"; from mansuescere, "to tame"; literally, "to accustom to the hand", from manus, "hand" + suescere, "to accustom, to habituate".
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2. Gentleness and mildness: Some Christian believers tend to show a mansuetude of love for others by kindly listening to their questions, difficulties, or problems.
3. Etymology: from Latin mansuetudo, "tameness"; from mansuetus, "tamed"; from mansuescere, "to tame"; literally, "to accustom to the hand", from manus, "hand" + suescere, "to accustom, to habituate".
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manu-, man-, mani-, mandat-, manda-
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-tude
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