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seemlihood

noun

  1. The state, condition, or quality of being seemly; seemliness.

    dated, uncountable

    And flowers have made confessions unto me At which I marvel; for they rail at thee And call thee heartless in thy seemlihood, Though queen-elect of all the flowers that be.

Where it comes from

From Middle English semlyhode, variant of semlyhede (modern English seemlihead); equivalent to seemly + -hood.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry seemlihood (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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