mollitude en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈmɒlɪtjuːd/ (UK)
Etymology
From Latin mollitūdō, from mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -itude.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) Softness; luxuriousness.
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, published 2001, page 274: