Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MILD'NESS
MILD'LYMILD-SPIR'IT-ED, or MILD-TEM'PER-ED
MILD'NESS, n.
- Softness; gentleness; as, the mildness of words or speech; mildness of voice.
- Tenderness; mercy; clemency; as, mildness of temper.
- Gentleness of operation; as, the mildness of a medicine.
- Softness; the quality that affects the senses pleasantly; as, the mildness of fruit or of liquors.
- Temperateness; moderate state; as, the mildness of weather.
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