humblesse

English

Etymology

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

Noun

humblesse (uncountable)

(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)

humbleness; humility

Descendants

→ Middle English: humblesse
- English: humblesse

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