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gaumlessness en · NOUN

Etymology

From gaumless + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, rare, uncountable) Alternative spelling of gormlessness.
    • I can vouch for the truth of every word that "Jack Faust" wrote and for the gaumlessness with which he set each down. 1972, Paul Theroux, Sinning with Annie, and other stories, page 7:
    • Rabelais's vision is too fundamentally comic for him not to see that a certain kind of humility is not far from gaumlessness. 1992, Michael Andrew Screech, “The Meaning of Thaumaste”, in Some Renaissance Studies: Selected Articles 1951-1991, →ISBN: