aboute
See also: abouté
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aboute (not comparable)
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aboute
- inflection of abouter:
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From Old English onbūtan.
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aboute
- around
- 1384, John Wycliffe, Bible (Wycliffe): Proverbs, vi, 3-4:
- Therfor, my sone, do thou that that Y seie, and delyuere thi silf; for thou hast fallun in to the hond of thi neiybore. Renne thou aboute, haste thou, reise thi freend;
yyue thou not sleep to thin iyen, nether thin iyeliddis nappe.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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- “abǒute(n, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.