dulciferous

English

Etymology

From Latin dulcifer (“containing sweetness”), from Latin dulcis (“sweet”). Equivalent to dulce +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous.

Adjective

dulciferous (comparative more dulciferous, superlative most dulciferous)

  1. (rare, dated) Having a pleasant disposition.
    • 1892, Israel Zangwill, The Grandchildren of the Ghetto:
      It put a touch of acid into his dulciferous mildness.
    • 1911, James Ira Deese Miller, A Guide Into the South‎[1], volume I, Atlanta: Index Printing Company, page 35:
      He may roil your mind with his collusions but I will elaqueate your dulciferous egoity when your heart dehisces to the epiphoras which house no elench.
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