wrecche

Middle English

Adjective

wrecche

1. wretched
   • Mid-1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book IV, lines 270-273:

     O Troilus, what may men now thee calle

     But wrecche of wrecches, out of honour falle

     Into miserie, in which I wol biwayle

     Criseyde, allas! Til that the breeth me fayle?