tormentrye
Middle English
editNoun
edittormentrye
- Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 248-252:
- Thou seist to me, it is a greet meschief
To wedde a povre womman, for costage;
And if that she be riche, of heigh parage,
Than seistow that it is a tormentrye
To suffre hir pryde and hir malencolye.- Thou sayest to me it is a great misfortune
To wed a poor woman, because of expense;
And if she be rich, of high birth,
Then thou sayest that it is a torment
To put up with her pride and her angry moods.
- Thou sayest to me it is a great misfortune
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 248-252: