mildheartedness

mildheartedness

English

Noun

mildheartedness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being mild (gentle, not easily angered).
   • 1881, Aelfric, ‎Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric's Lives of Saints (page 341)

     David for his meekness and mildheartedness was pleasing to God and was chosen king, so that God Himself spake thus concerning him, […]

   • 1897, F. W. Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond

     We shall not readily ascribe the change to any mildheartedness of the lords.

   • 2013, Mark C. Amodio, The Anglo Saxon Literature Handbook

     God is our father through his mildheartedness, and the fish signifies faith, that egg holy hope, and the bread true love