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Humblesse

Hum′blesse

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Noun.
[OF.]
Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Spenser.

Definition 2024


humblesse

humblesse

English

Noun

humblesse (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Humility, humbleness.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
      when to her they came, / Themselues to ground with gratious humblesse bent, / And her ador'd by honorable name [...].

Old French

Alternative forms

  • humblece
  • humblesce
  • umblece
  • umblesce
  • umblesse

Noun

humblesse f (nominative singular humblesse)

  1. humbleness; humility

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