humblesse
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English humblesse, from Old French humblesse, from humble.
Noun
[edit]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 […]
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[edit]Noun
[edit]humblesse oblique singular, f (nominative singular humblesse)
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