lowlihead

noun

lowlihead

noun

Etymology From Middle English lowlyhede, equivalent to lowly + -head.

1

Archaic The state of being lowly; meekness; humility.

  • The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead.1888, Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Early poems:
  • But through a perfect gentleness, instead. For from the lamp of her meek lowlihead Such an exceeding glory went up hence [...]2001, Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Vita Nuova:
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lowlihood

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