dulciferous

adj

dulciferous

adj

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

1

Dated, Rare Having a pleasant disposition.

  • It put a touch of acid into his dulciferous mildness.1892, Israel Zangwill, The Grandchildren of the Ghetto:
  • 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.1911, James Ira Deese Miller, A Guide Into the South, volume I, Atlanta: Index Printing Company, page 35:

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