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melahuacanemilice.

Headword: 
melahuacanemilice.
Principal English Translation: 

a holy and just person, who leads a clean life; or, sincere and without deceit, duplicity, dissimulation (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
melauacanemilice
Alonso de Molina: 

melauacanemilice. persona sancta justa y de buena vida, o sincera y sin doblez.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 55r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality