Definitions
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- noun rare
Obedience ;submission toauthority .
Etymologies
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From Middle English hersumnesse, from Old English hīersumnes ("obedience, submission, service, humility"), equivalent to hearsome + -ness.
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Thus the hearsomeness of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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