Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Soon; early.
- Quickly; promptly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Eagerly; briskly; quickly.
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Examples
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"The dredful joye alwey that slit so yerne" - I always thought that meant, "that always cuts so deeply" (I was never much of a one for looking up the vocab), but it means, "slides away so swiftly".
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"The dredful joye alwey that slit so yerne" - I always thought that meant, "that always cuts so deeply" (I was never much of a one for looking up the vocab), but it means, "slides away so swiftly".
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Fo - f ItaFihcuUmodo diuiduntur, fihter fiauefcentiahirfutadJu - I yerne umdia.
Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550
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a horseman commynge, he casteth holy water vpon hym, and anone he offereth hym the ouerlether of a shoo bownde abowte with an yerne whope, wherin is a glasse lyke a precyouse stone, they that kysse it gyf a pece of monay.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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