Word Meanings - HUMBLESSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Humbleness; abasement; low obeisance. Chaucer. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to HUMBLESSE)

• ABASEMENT
  The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• OBEISANCE
  1. Obedience. Chaucer. 2. A manifestation of obedience; an expression of difference or respect; homage; a bow; a courtesy. Bathsheba bowed and did obeisance unto the king. 1 Kings i. 16.
• HUMBLENESS
  The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• DISOBEISANCE
  Disobedience. E. Hall.
• SELF-ABASEMENT
  1. Degradation of one's self by one's own act. 2. Humiliation or abasement proceeding from consciousness of inferiority, guilt, or shame.