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Humbleness vs Humblesse - What's the difference?

humbleness | humblesse |

As nouns the difference between humbleness and humblesse

is that humbleness is humility; the property of being humble while humblesse is humility, humbleness.

humbleness

English

Noun

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  • Humility; the property of being humble.
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    • , title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}

    humblesse

    English

    Noun

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  • (obsolete) Humility, humbleness.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • when to her they came, / Themselues to ground with gratious humblesse bent, / And her ador'd by honorable name [...].
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