holinesse

English

Etymology

See holyness and holy.

Noun

holinesse (uncountable)

1. Obsolete spelling of holiness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 3:

     The Patrone of true Holineſse, / Foule Errour doth defeate:

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