different between comeliness vs mense

English

Alternative forms

• comliness

Etymology

comely +? -ness (“the quality of being”)

Noun

comeliness (usually uncountable, plural comelinesses)

1. Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead […]

Synonyms

• pulchritude

Anagrams

• incomeless

English

Etymology

From earlier mensk, from Middle English menske (“courtesy, honour”), from Old Norse menska (“humanity”). Cognate with Old English menniscu (“the human condition, humanity”). More at mennish, mensch.

Noun

mense (plural menses)

1. Property, owndom; possessions.
2. (Britain, dialect) manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility

Derived terms

• menseful
• menseless

Verb

mense (third-person singular simple present menses, present participle mensing, simple past and past participle mensed)

1. To adorn, bring honour to; grace.

Anagrams

• Semen, menes, mesen, mesne, neems, semen

Afrikaans

Noun

mense

1. plural of mens: people

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?nsa. Compare the inherited doublet moise, which acquired a technical sense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??s/

Noun

mense f (plural menses)

1. (archaic) table
2. Ecclesiastical revenue, especially that of an abbey

Related terms

• commensal

Further reading

• “mense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin mensis (“month”).

Noun

mense (plural menses)

1. month

See also

• januario
• februario
• martio
• april
• maio
• junio
• julio
• augusto
• septembre
• octobre
• novembre
• decembre

Italian

Noun

mense f

1. plural of mensa

Latin

Noun

m?nse

1. ablative singular of m?nsis

Anagrams

• semen