buxomness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English buxomnesse, boghsomnes, buxumnesse, from Old English bōcsumnes, būhsomnes (“flexibility, pliableness, obedience, buxomness”), equivalent to buxom + -ness.
Noun
[edit]buxomness (uncountable)
- Voluptuousness.
- (obsolete) Obedience.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:
- Lucifer […] was þe louelokest of siȝt aftir oure lord / Til he brake buxumnesse.
- (now rare) Happiness, gaiety.
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