mollient

English

Etymology

From Latin molliens, past participle of mollire (“to soften”), from mollis (“soft”).

Adjective

mollient (comparative more mollient, superlative most mollient)

  1. Serving to soften or assuage; emollient.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mollient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

mollient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of molliō
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