gulfe

English

Noun

gulfe (plural gulfes)

1. Obsolete spelling of gulf.
   • 1590, Spenser, “II.xii”, in The Faerie Queene‎^[1]:

     That is the Gulfe of Greedinesse, they say, That deepe engorgeth all this worldes pray...

   • c. 1614, Daniel Dyke, Two Treatises:

     […] implunging our ſelues into the gulfe of our ſinne

   • 1622, John Downame, “Of ſuch Reaſons as may mooue vs to abhor carnall ſecuritie, and to vſe all meanes either to preuent it, or to be freed from it” (chapter VIII), in A Guide to Godlynesse: or, A Treatise of A Christian Life, page 53:

     It is a ſeeming peace, more dangerous then any warre ; and in outward appearance a quiet calme, but in truth the moſt perillous tempeſt, in which many millions of ſoules doe ſuffer ſhipwracke, and ſinke into the gulfe of endleſſe perdition.