Middle English

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Noun

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deduyt (plural deduyts)

  1. delight
    • Prose Merlin
      Merlin ... thought that a moche fole were he yef he slepte so in his synne to lese his witte and his connynge for to have the deduyt of a mayden
    • Chaucer, the Knight's Tale
      Upon his hand he bar for his deduyt / An egle tame, as any lilye whyt.