Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
vile .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Vile.
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- adjective obsolete
vile
Etymologies
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Examples
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As with "vild," so with the other words subjected to like changes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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I doubte as tha I am a very vild fellow, (Lord bless my soil, I pray God!) and did not intend it.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Saaleddies er it in this warken werden, mine boerne, and it vild need older-wise 3 since primal made alter in garden of
Finnegans Wake 2006
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In the folio of 1623, in all these cases, except the first, it is spelled _vild_; in the folio of 1632, with the same exception, we also find _vild_; even in the folio of 1664 [ll] the spelling in all these instances remains unchanged; but in the folio of 1685, _vild_ gives place to _vile_ in every case.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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No man knows all this better than Mr. Collier; and yet we are called upon to believe that he, meaning to obtain authoritative position for the marginal readings in this folio, by making them appear to have been written by a contemporary of Shakespeare's later years, altered _vild_ to _vile_ in three passages of a single play, though he thereby made not the slightest shade of difference in the meaning of the passage!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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"Didn't I told you so?" und Rudolph gits so vild dot he svears dot she can't haf someding more to do mit him.
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Any man who could make the body of these corrections knows that the most common spelling of "vile" down to the middle of the century 1600 was _vild_ or _vilde_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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"It's a vild cat," he shouted, scrambling to the ground.
Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur Edward C. Taylor
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Maybe you find some cheap skate feller vit some vild cat company vot promise you more; but he sells de picture and makes over de money to his vife's brudders, and den he goes bust, and vere you at den, hey?
They Call Me Carpenter Upton Sinclair 1923
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You loaf me, but you air like a vild deer; you air so easy startle, and so hard to hold.
Under the Southern Cross Elizabeth Robins 1907
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