agrief
Middle English
editEtymology
editAdverb
editagrief
- In grief; amiss.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Nun's Priest's Tale: 126-8.
- And he answerde and seyde thus, 'Madame,
I pray yow that ye take it nat agrief.
By God, me thoughte I was in swich meschief [...]'- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Nun's Priest's Tale: 126-8.
References
edit- “agrief”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.