Noun: mense
| Singular | mense |
| Plural | menses |
Sample Sentences
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... But never a soul had the mense to come near them,[…] [1812, John Bell, Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs and Poems, Peculiar to the Counties of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham, page 185:]
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Little mense to the cheeks to bite aff the nose[…] [1842, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Information for the People, page 796:]
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For she had baked a crumpie cake And butter scones, for mense's sake, To entertain her lodger. [1871, Henry Scott Riddell, The Poetical Works of Henry Scott Riddell, page 141:]
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Be seen with men of mense, but turn aside From swicks and sweeps, the silly and the low […] [1895, William Dunbar, Dunbar: Being a Selection from the Poems of an Old Makar, page 31:]
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... ye'll hae the sense and the mense to keep a calm sough,[…] [1904, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Men of the Moss-hags: Being a History of Adventure Taken from the Papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway, page 126:]
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There is not a mense of snow in "smoky Leeds," [1841, Richard Winter Hamilton, Nugae Literariae: Prose and Verse, page 356:]
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He has a mense o' pure nonsense, [1857, James Stewart, Sketches of Scottish Character, and Other Poems. The Late James Steward. With a Memoir of the Author, page 22:]
Nouns inflected like mense
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From earlier mensk, from Middle English menske (“courtesy, honour”), from Old English mennisċu (“the human condition, humanity”) and/or Old Norse menska (“humanity”). More at mennish, mensch. See: Middle English Nouns '
menske', Old English Nouns '
mennisċu', Old Norse Nouns '
menska'.