Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
fair .
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Examples
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Avant de feire in fagot, o faut ârgader la riorte.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Avant de feire in fagot, o faut ârgader la riorte.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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[G] a wé alle þene wei. for he us wule bringe. mid te feawe feire men. be {} foren heuen kinge.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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++As he hefde en chere bihalden swiðe ȝeorne hire utnumne feire.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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"E communde le rey e defend qe feire ne marche ne seient tenuz en cimeter pur honur de seint eglise."
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Zum andern, dass ich alle Tage meines Lebens von meinen boesen Werken feire, den Herrn durch seinen Geist in mir wirken lasse, und also den ewigen Sabbath in diesem Leben anfange.
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Zum andern, dass ich alle Tage meines Lebens von meinen boesen Werken feire, den Herrn durch seinen Geist in mir wirken lasse, und also den ewigen Sabbath in diesem Leben anfange.
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And printeth chiefly in your_e_ memorie, For A principalle poynt of feire norture, Ye depraue no man absent especially; 157 Seint Austyn
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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⁊ he seolf wende ȝeond þis lo {n} d {;} to sechen ænne bræ [d] ne fæld. þer he mihte wel spræde {;} On his feire hude.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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⁊ affrican hire feader feng on earst feire on {;} to lokin ȝef he mahte wið eani luue speden.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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