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Webster 1913 Edition


Mollitude

Mol′li-tude

,
Noun.
[L.
mollitudo
, fr.
mollis
soft.]
Softness; effeminacy; weakness.
[R.]

Definition 2024


mollitude

mollitude

English

Noun

mollitude (uncountable)

  1. (now rare) Softness; luxuriousness.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2001, p. 274:
      I have frequented bordels since my sixteenth year, but [...] nothing about them pre-announced the luxury and mollitude of my first Villa Venus.