Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lowness.
- noun plural Lowlands.
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- noun Northern England
Lowness . - noun (in the plural)
Lowlands .
Etymologies
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From low + -th.
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Examples
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So also of other pairs one has been taken and one left; ‘height’, or ‘highth’, as Milton better spelt it, remains, but ‘lowth’ (Becon) is gone; ‘righteousness’, or
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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