buxomness

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Noun

buxomness (uncountable)

1. Voluptuousness.
2. (obsolete) Obedience.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:

     Lucifer […] was þe louelokest of siȝt aftir oure lord / Til he brake buxumnesse.

3. (now, rare) Happiness, gaiety.

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