drerie

English

Adjective

drerie (comparative more drerie, superlative most drerie)

1. Obsolete spelling of dreary.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     They gan to fight returne, increasing more / Their puissant force, and cruell rage attonce, / With heaped strokes more hugely, then before, / That with their drerie wounds and bloudy gore / They both deformed […]

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