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bountihead

bountihead noun: bounteousness.

Noun

bountihead (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Bounteousness.
    • How shall fraile pen, with feare disparaged, / Conceiue such soueraine glory, and great bountihed?1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of bountihead

alternative formbountihed

Origin of bountihead

From bounty + -head.

Questions about bountihead

What does bountihead mean?
Bountihead means bounteousness.
What part of speech is bountihead?
Bountihead is a noun.

Words near bountihead in the dictionary

  1. bountiful
  2. bountifull
  3. bountifuller
  4. bountifully
  5. bountifulness
  6. bountihead
  7. bountihood
  8. bountiless
  9. bountious
  10. bountiousness
  11. bountith

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