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mild-hearted, a. [Formed as prec. + -ed2.] Tender-hearted, gentle, merciful.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 23 Forðon drihten is mildheorteð inoh he wule hit me forȝeuen. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 95 Mild⁓heorted beð þe man þe reouð his nehȝebures unselðe. a1300E.E. Psalter cii. 8 Rewful and mildeherted lauerd gode. 1843Marryat M. Violet xxxiii, Mild-hearted savages. Hence mild-heartedness.
1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1877) I. App. 553 King ælfred's notion..that the..wergild was introduced by the Christian Bishops in imitation of the mild-heartedness of Christ. [Cf. quot. c 900 s.v. mildheartness.]. |