Mollitious Definition
adverb
C1644, Francis Quarles, “The Lascivious Man. His Heaven.”, in Judgment and Mercy for Afflicted Souls: Or, Meditations, Soliloquies, and Prayers. New Ed., with a Biographical and Critical Introduction by Reginalde Wolfe, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, published 1807, page 111.
Can lusty diet, and mollicious rest, bring forth no other fruits but faint desires, rigid thoughts, and phlegmatic conceits?
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1840, Robert Browning, “Book The Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, page 92.
And here in snowy birdskin robes they are, Sordello, here, mollitious alcoves gilt Superb as Byzant-domes that devils built — Ah, Byzant, there again !
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Origin of Mollitious
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From Latin mollities (“mollitiēs”) + English -ous.
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