gaumlessness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]gaumlessness (uncountable)
- (rare) Alternative spelling of gormlessness
- 1972, Paul Theroux, Sinning with Annie, and other stories, page 7:
- I can vouch for the truth of every word that "Jack Faust" wrote and for the gaumlessness with which he set each down.
- 1992, Michael Andrew Screech, “The Meaning of Thaumaste”, in Some Renaissance Studies: Selected Articles 1951-1991, →ISBN:
- Rabelais's vision is too fundamentally comic for him not to see that a certain kind of humility is not far from gaumlessness.