lowlihead

English

Etymology

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

Noun

lowlihead (uncountable)

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