wreien

Middle English

wreien

To reveal
- 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin's Tale", Canterbury Tales
  no thyng dorste he seye, / Save in his songes somwhat wolde he wreye / His wo
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
To betray.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
  Thou shalt upon thy trouthe swere me heere
  That to no wight thou shalt this conseil wreye.
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