remollient

English

Etymology

From Latin remolliens, present participle of remollire (“to mollify”). Compare French rémollient. See mollient.

Adjective

remollient (comparative more remollient, superlative most remollient)

  1. mollifying; softening

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “remollient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

remollient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of remolliō
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