menseful
/ˈmɛnsfʊl
/adjective Scottish & Northern English
In keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained: she seems a menseful lass...
- Jane has done her best to make the place menseful.
- Just be menseful and stay by the door, and do as I bid thee.
- We may note the menseful way in which Beowulf acts as regent for the deceased king's young sons.
Origin
Late 16th century: from mense 'propriety, decorum' + -ful.
- collectable
- collectanea
- collected
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- collectedness
- collectible
- collectibles
- collection
- collective
- collective bargaining
- collective farm
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- collective mark
- collective memory
- collectiveness
- collective noun
- collective ownership
- collective security
- collective unconscious
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- collectivism
- collectivist
- collectivistic
- collectivity
- collectivization