Meanings
alternative seemlihed
- archaicuncountableThe condition of being seemly; seemliness.
And then his tongue with sober seemlihed / Gave utterance.
1818, John Keats, Endymion, section IV2 more examples
she […] by his persons secret seemlyhed / Wel weend that he had beene some man of place […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLCHereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead […]
1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a NightSynonyms: seemlihood
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe condition of being seemly; seemliness.
Origin
- Middle Englishsemlyhede
- Englishseemlihead
From Middle English semlyhede, equivalent to seemly + -head.
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