ETYMOLOGY
from Latin mollitudo, from mollis (soft) + -tudo (-tude)
EXAMPLE
“… Which, if you had otherwise expressed his sense rightlie, yet should you haue forborne to apply to yours for the observing of decorum, a thing that you commend so in Homer, and your selfe aime at: sith those maides and wooers, intended both by Homer and you, to be wantons, must vse lascivious danses; and the man (if you will needes haue such resemblances) bee compared rather to Mollitude, or Cowardnes, the woman to Incontinencie. …”
From: Th’overthrow of Stage-Playes, by the way of controversie betwixt D. Gager and D. Rainoldes
By John Rainolds, 1599
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