derverye
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French derverie, desverie (“madness”), from derver, desver (“lose one’s reason, go mad”).[1]
Noun
editderverye (uncountable)
- Insanity; madness.[1]
- 1480, William Caxton, chapter X, in Six bookes of Metamorphoses of Ovyde, page VII:
- Withdrawe thyn herte fro such rage and derverye.
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