humblesse

English

Etymology

From Middle English humblesse, from Old French humblesse, from humble.

Noun

humblesse (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Humility, humbleness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     when to her they came, / Themselues to ground with gratious humblesse bent, / And her ador'd by honorable name […]

Anagrams

• Humbleses

Old French

Alternative forms

• humblece
• humblesce
• umblece
• umblesce
• umblesse

Noun

humblesse oblique singular, f (nominative singular humblesse)

1. humbleness; humility

Descendants

• → Middle English: humblesse
  • English: humblesse