lowlihead
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English lowlyhede, equivalent to lowly + -head.
Noun edit
lowlihead (uncountable)
- (archaic) The state of being lowly; meekness; humility.
- 1888, Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Early poems:
- The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead.
- 2001, Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Vita Nuova:
- But through a perfect gentleness, instead. For from the lamp of her meek lowlihead Such an exceeding glory went up hence [...]