priefe

English

Noun

priefe (countable and uncountable, plural priefes)

1. Obsolete spelling of proof. [16th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     For onely worthy you through prowes priefe / Yf liuing man mote worthy be, to be her liefe.

Anagrams

• Peifer