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lowlihead en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic, uncountable) The state of being lowly; meekness; humility.
   • But through a perfect gentleness, instead. For from the lamp of her meek lowlihead Such an exceeding glory went up hence [...] 2001, Dante Alighieri, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Vita Nuova:
   • The stately flower of female fortitude, Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead. 1888, Baron Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Early poems:

Relateds

lowlihood