单词 | lowlihead |
释义 | lowliheadn. Now rare (archaic and poetic in later use). Humility, meekness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > humility > [noun] edmodnessc888 edmedec1000 dafteliȝkc1175 edmodleȝcc1175 meeklaikc1175 meeknessc1175 meekshipc1225 lowshipc1230 humilityc1315 meekheadc1325 lowness1340 povertyc1350 humblessec1374 umblete1377 humbleness1388 humbletec1400 lowlinessa1413 humilness1423 lowliheada1450 self-contempt1563 humilitudea1586 demissness1603 lowlihood1818 a1450 (c1400) Cuckoo & Nightingale (Tanner) (1975) l. 156 (MED) Lowlihed [c1450 Fairf. Therof..cometh..Lovelyhed and trewe companye]. c1450 (?a1405) J. Lydgate Complaint Black Knight (Fairf.) l. 314 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 395 (MED) For who can feyne vnder loulyhede, Ne fayleth not to fynde grace and spede. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) l. 7995 Meknesse & lavlyhede. 1830 Ld. Tennyson Isabel in Poems 7 The stately flower..Of perfect wifehood and pure lowlihead. 1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. Dante Vita Nuova in Early Ital. Poets ii. 288 The lamp of her meek lowlihead. 1889 R. Browning Pope & Net in Asolando (1890) 33 The thing was gone—That guarantee of lowlihead. 1915 Graduate Mag. (University of Kansas) Oct. 20 Yet do I take less joyance in the sight Of all their splendor..Than in contemplating your lowlihead, O, wild verbena. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1450 |
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