gaumlessness

English

Etymology

gaumless +‎ -ness

Noun

gaumlessness (uncountable)

  1. (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.
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