"seemlihood" meaning in English

See seemlihood in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: seemlyhood [alternative]
Etymology: From Middle English semlyhode, variant of semlyhede (modern English seemlihead); equivalent to seemly + -hood. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|semlyhode}} Middle English semlyhode, {{m+|en|seemlihead}} English seemlihead, {{suffix|en|seemly|hood}} seemly + -hood Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} seemlihood (uncountable)
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being seemly; seemliness. Tags: uncountable

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "semlyhode"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English semlyhode",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "seemlihead"
      },
      "expansion": "English seemlihead",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "seemly",
        "3": "hood"
      },
      "expansion": "seemly + -hood",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English semlyhode, variant of semlyhede (modern English seemlihead); equivalent to seemly + -hood.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "seemlyhood",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "seemlihood (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -hood",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              114,
              124
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1890, Eric Mackay, A lover's litanies: and other poems - Page 47:",
          "text": "And flowers have made confessions unto me At which I marvel; for they rail at thee And call thee heartless in thy seemlihood, Though queen-elect of all the flowers that be.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              74,
              84
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1896, Julia Evelyn Ditto Young, This then is the story of Glynne's wife told in numbers - Page 14:",
          "text": "Proclaimed himself her loyal knight, and swore Glynne to coerce to decent seemlihood, Begged her to cease her tears, lest ravaged cheek And sunken eyes unfitted her for all Engagements of the evening, [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state, condition, or quality of being seemly; seemliness."
      ],
      "id": "en-seemlihood-en-noun-XulLo9CS",
      "links": [
        [
          "seemly",
          "seemly"
        ],
        [
          "seemliness",
          "seemliness"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seemlihood"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "semlyhode"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English semlyhode",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "seemlihead"
      },
      "expansion": "English seemlihead",
      "name": "m+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "seemly",
        "3": "hood"
      },
      "expansion": "seemly + -hood",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English semlyhode, variant of semlyhede (modern English seemlihead); equivalent to seemly + -hood.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "seemlyhood",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "seemlihood (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms suffixed with -hood",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              114,
              124
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1890, Eric Mackay, A lover's litanies: and other poems - Page 47:",
          "text": "And flowers have made confessions unto me At which I marvel; for they rail at thee And call thee heartless in thy seemlihood, Though queen-elect of all the flowers that be.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              74,
              84
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1896, Julia Evelyn Ditto Young, This then is the story of Glynne's wife told in numbers - Page 14:",
          "text": "Proclaimed himself her loyal knight, and swore Glynne to coerce to decent seemlihood, Begged her to cease her tears, lest ravaged cheek And sunken eyes unfitted her for all Engagements of the evening, [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state, condition, or quality of being seemly; seemliness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "seemly",
          "seemly"
        ],
        [
          "seemliness",
          "seemliness"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seemlihood"
}

Download raw JSONL data for seemlihood meaning in English (1.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (aeaf2a1 and fb63907). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.