reddour

Middle English

Noun

reddour

1. rigour; violence
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     But above all in his noblesse
     Betwene the reddour and pite
     A king shall do suche equite

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Further reading

• “reddour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.