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单词 mollitude
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mollituden.

Brit. /ˈmɒlᵻtjuːd/, /ˈmɒlᵻtʃuːd/, U.S. /ˈmɑləˌt(j)ud/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mollitūdō.
Etymology: < classical Latin mollitūdō < mollis soft (see moll adj.) + -tūdō -tude suffix. Compare French mollitude (a1614 or earlier). Compare earlier mollity n.
Now rare.
Softness; effeminacy; luxuriousness.In quot. 1767 used in a parody of Johnsonian style.
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the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [noun]
effeminateness1558
effeminacy1571
gingerliness1583
mollitude1599
mollities1604
invirility1628
femality?1643
womanlishness1648
feminity1669
ladyness1671
Miss Mollyism1834
femininity1855
Miss Nancyism1860
sissiness1892
camp1909
sissification1910
camping1922
lavender1929
1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 137 The man (if you will needes haue such resemblances) bee compared rather to Mollitude, or Cowardnes, the woman to Incontinence.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Mollitude, softness, niceness, tenderness, effeminateness, wantonness.
1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 11 A perennial mollitude of manners.
1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. iii. 353 I had visited bordels since my sixteenth year, but..nothing about them pre-announced the luxury and mollitude of my first Villa Venus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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