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gentlesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From gentle + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by gentleness; mild; tender.
   • Even more surprising was how he loved to rock Annie Mae, talk to her in the most gentlesome way. 2023, Ron Rash, The Caretaker:
   • Not that he weren't capable of a gentlesome word or a tender touch, but such as that come to him less natural than any living creature I ever seen. 2015, Bruce Olds, Raising Holy Hell:
   • A timid and gentlesome frog approached her, gravely bowed in a groove below her flexed kneecap. 2005, Jeremy Hoemsen, Okanagan University College, Bible Prophecies Revealed:
   • 'Yes, Else,' I said, my voice quiet & most gentlesome. “You are not mistaken, & then I raised my veil & smiled wide, wide, wide. [...]” 2008, Liz Jensen, My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time:

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