mildheartedness

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mildheartedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being mild (gentle, not easily angered).
    • 1881, Ælfric, translated by Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric's Lives of Saints, page 341:
      David for his meekness and mildheartedness was pleasing to God and was chosen king, so that God Himself spake thus concerning him, […]
    • 1897, F. W. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond:
      We shall not readily ascribe the change to any mildheartedness of the lords.
    • 2013, Mark C. Amodio, The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook:
      God is our father through his mildheartedness, and the fish signifies faith, that egg holy hope, and the bread true love
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