seemlihead

English

Alternative forms

• seemlihed

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English semelyhede, equivalent to seemly +‎ -head.

Noun

seemlihead (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The condition of being seemly; seemliness.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.8:

     she […] by his persons secret seemlyhed / Wel weend that he had beene some man of place […].

   • 1818, John Keats, Endymion, IV:

     And then his tongue with sober seemlihed / Gave utterance.

   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead […]

Synonyms

• seemlihood