buxomness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed

Inherited from Middle English buxomnesse, buxumnesse (“obedience, meekness, benevolence”); by surface analysis, buxom + ness.

What thee is sent, receive in buxomness;* *submission The wrestling of this world asketh a fall; Here is no home, here is but wilderness. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
Say, who that angel is, that with such glee Beholds our queen, and so enamour’d glows Of her high beauty, that all fire he seems.” So I again resorted to the lore Of my wise teacher, he, whom Mary’s charms Embellish’d, as the sun the morning star; Who thus in answer spake: “In him are summ’d, Whatever of buxomness and free delight May be in Spirit, or in angel, met: And so beseems: for that he bare the palm Down unto Mary, when the Son of God Vouchsaf’d to clothe him in terrestrial weeds. — The divine comedy, Dante Alighieri

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