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 […]

Old French

Alternative forms
  • humblece
  • humblesce
  • umblece
  • umblesce
  • umblesse

Noun

humblesse f (nominative singular humblesse)

  1. humbleness; humility

Descendants
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