lowness

Dérivé de low avec le suffixe -ness.

lowness \Prononciation ?\

1. Bassesse, état de ce qui est bas.
   • Then I was forced to rest; and, sitting down on the ground, saw that the glimmering streak of light had faded, and that the awful blackness of the previous night was creeping up again. And now I had no heart to face it, being cowed with hunger, thirst, and weariness; and so flung myself upon my face, that I might not see how dark it was, and groaned for very lowness of spirit. — (Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, 1898)
2. Bassesse, vulgarité.
   • lownesses of expression.

• lowliness