Mildness
['maɪldnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
Edited by Claudette
Examples
- Bad work like this dispelled all Caleb's mildness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You make me feel very uncomfortable, Mary, said Rosamond, with her gravest mildness; I would not tell mamma for the world. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It needed all Jane's steady mildness to bear these attacks with tolerable tranquillity. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- In another day or two perhaps; this extreme mildness can hardly last longernay, perhaps it may freeze tonight! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She raised her eyes for a moment as she said the words; and then they fell again, in all their gentleness and mildness, on his face. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Edison's great effort--not to make a large light or a blinding light, but a small light having the mildness of gas. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Her eyes were hazel, and expressive of mildness, now through recent affliction allied to sadness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I want to say one thing, and then there shall be an end of it, returned Mr. Laurence with unusual mildness. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Neither grief, philosophy, nor love could make Perdita think with mildness of the dereliction of Raymond. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The master is a person of an excellent disposition, and is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness, and the mildness of his discipline. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Mrs. Dorset took this with an exquisite mildness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I see you do not wish me to go, she said, with chill mildness; why can you not say so, without that kind of violence? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The mildness of my nature had fled, and all within me was turned to gall and bitterness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Idris appeared to be the only being who could resist her mother, notwithstanding the extreme mildness of her character. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And Marianne was in spirits; happy in the mildness of the weather, and still happier in her expectation of a frost. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
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