humblesse

humblesse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French humblesse, from humble.

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 […]

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Old French

Alternative forms

• humblece
• humblesce
• umblece
• umblesce
• umblesse

Noun

humblesse f (nominative singular humblesse)

1. humbleness; humility

Descendants

• English: humblesse (borrowed)