† ˈpensivehead Obs. rare.
[See -head.]
Pensiveness.
| ? a 1412 Lydg. Two Merchants 874 And seide, ‘Freend, your pensifheed asswage’. a 1450 ― Merita Missæ in Lay Folks Mass Bk. 392 Now hope, now dred, now pensyffhede, now thought, Al thyse yfere palen myn chere and hewe. |