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† humblesse Obs.
Also 4 umblesse, 5 humbles, -is(se.
[a. OF. (h)umblesse, f. humble: see humble a.1 and -ess2. In ME. stressed on second syllable; by Spenser on first: cf. richesse, riches.]
Humbleness, humility.
c1374Chaucer Former Age 55 Vmblesse and pes good feith the emperice. c1374― Boeth. iii. pr. viii. 63 (Camb. MS.) Thow shal defowle thy-self thorw humblesse of axynge. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. iv. (1869) 3 Wher inne weren stikked twelue degrees of humblisse. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. iii. 26 And with faire fearefull humblesse towards him shee came. 1610G. Fletcher Christ's Vict. i. lxxv, And with prone humblesse her feet's dust doth sweep. 1736W. Thompson Nativ. iv. 2 The strawy bed Where Mary, queen of Heaven, in humbless lay. |