seemlihead

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Etymology

From Middle English semlyhede, equivalent to seemly +‎ -head.

Noun

seemlihead (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The condition of being seemly; seemliness.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      she […] by his persons secret seemlyhed / Wel weend that he had beene some man of place […].
    • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, section IV:
      And then his tongue with sober seemlihed / Gave utterance.
    • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:
      Hereat 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

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