Meanings
nounhumblesse (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableHumility, humbleness.
when to her they came, / Themselues to ground with gratious humblesse bent, / And her ador'd by honorable name […]
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
- Old Frenchhumblesse
- Middle Englishhumblesse
- Englishhumblesse
From Middle English humblesse, from Old French humblesse, from humble.
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humblesse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humblesse
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“humblesse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humblesse. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “humblesse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/humblesse.
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