mense

noun

ˈmen(t)s 

chiefly Scotland

: propriety

menseless

ˈmen(t)s-ləs 

adjective chiefly Scotland

Examples of mense in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The Four Phases of Your Menstrual Cycle The menstrual cycle starts on the first day of your period, also known as menses or menstruation. —Carley Millhone, Health, 13 Dec. 2024

During menses, low estrogen and progesterone levels help shed the uterine lining (endometrium). —Carley Millhone, Health, 13 Dec. 2024

Early onset of menses and late menopause are also risk factors, according to Worley. —Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2023

Your hormones may also have started cycling, which will onset menses again. —Christin Perry, Parents, 26 June 2024

And dying young, of course, is another surefire way to avoid racking up an excessive number of lifetime menses. —Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024

However, this can also depend on your menstrual cycle because while most people ovulate 10 to 14 days before their menses, some are irregular. —Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Mar. 2024

Using hormonal contraception to limit the number of lifetime menses does pose other risks: most forms of the Pill slightly increase the risk of breast and cervical cancers while slightly lowering the risk of ovarian, endometrial, and colon cancers, according to most observational studies. —Laura Kolbe, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024

Even so, menses, months and the moon could share more than etymological roots. —Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023

Word History

Etymology

Middle English menske honor, from Old Norse mennska humanity; akin to Old English man

First Known Use

circa 1500, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for mense

• cense
• dense
• fence
• hence
• lense
• sense
• tense
• thence
• whence
• antisense
• commonsense
• effulgence