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8 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the quality of being holy
originFrom Middle English holynesse, holinesse, halinesse, from Old English hāliġnes (“holiness, a holy thing, rites”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailagnassī, equivalent to holy + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian hilligens (“holiness”), Old High German heilagnissi, heilīgnissi (“holiness”), whence Middle High German heilignis (“halidom”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- isohels 10
- helios 9
- hoises 9
- holies 9
- hosels 9
- isohel 9
- noshes 9
- sheols 9
- shiels 9
- shines 9
- heils 8
- helio 8