holinesse

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A form of holiness — The state or condition of being holy.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounholinesse (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of holiness.

    The Patrone of true Holineſse, / Foule Errour doth defeate:

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 3

Origin

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