The closest to the word in any form of still current English may
well be:
BLATE [Blait, Bleat, Bleet]
According to the
Dictionary of the Scots Language = modest,
diffident, bashful, sheepish [!]; put out, embarrassed
It might do nicely in an 18th-century context. If ever I get
round to translating Hölderlin's ode 'Blödigkeit', I'd quite like
to use 'Blateness' as a title.
Howard Gaskill
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