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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)
- (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.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2001, p. 274: