Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Middle English spellings of sicker, sickerly, sickerness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete See 2d
sicker ,sickerly , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
sicker : certain - adjective Alternative spelling of
sicker : secure - adverb Alternative spelling of
sicker : certainly - adverb Alternative spelling of
sicker : securely
Etymologies
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Examples
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And whoso will go by land through the land of Babylon, where the soldan dwelleth commonly, he must get grace of him and leave to go more siker through those lands and countries.
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And therefore, I am siker that this may not be, without a great token.
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Launcelot, and now I am siker that I shall never finish my quest, for ye have slain me with your hands.
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Sir, said the Red Knight of the Red Launds, all this will I do as ye command, and siker assurance and borrows ye shall have.
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Ah, said Sir Launcelot, comfort yourself; for it shall be unto us a great honour and much more than if we died in any other places, for of death we be siker.
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Goethe and Schiller did not call themselves Klas - siker and actually had an ambiguous attitude toward the whole enterprise of establishing a classical litera - ture.
CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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Goethe viewed the debate rather detachedly, he was, during his lifetime, fast becoming the German Klas - siker or at least one of the two great Klassiker.
CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE REN 1968
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M {on}. þe wule siker bon to habben Godes blisse. do wel him solf hwile þ̵ he mai {;} þenne haueð he his mid iwisse.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Þe richemen weneð siker ben þu ` r´ch wallen ⁊ thurh dichen.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Þa Maxence iherde þis {;} þ̵ he wes of him siker. ant of his cume karles. warð king of þat lond þ̵ lei into rome. as duden meast {10} alle þe oðere of þe world. bigon anan as wedwulf to weorrin hali chirche. ant dreie {n} cristene men þe lut þ̵ ter weren alle to heðenedom heðene as he wes.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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