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hearsomeness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English hersumnesse, from Old English hīersumnes (“obedience”), equivalent to hearsome + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian hearsumens (“obedience”).

  1. inherited from hīersumnes — “obedience”
  2. inherited from hersumnesse

Definitions

  1. Obedience

    Obedience; submission to authority.

    • Thus the hearsomeness of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis.
    • […] his awakened "hearsomeness" causing him to misconstrue the sound, along Aristotelean lines, as the sound of thunder.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hearsomeness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA