lowlihead

English

Etymology

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

Noun

lowlihead (uncountable)

1. (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 [...]

Related terms

• lowlihood