Middle English Dictionary Entry
dēlūǧe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dēlūǧe n. Also diluge. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A flood; Noah's flood; Deucalion's flood; (b) a storm; a season of heavy rains; (c) fig. a great danger; the flood of death or of worldliness.
Associated quotations
a
- c1405 Chaucer CT.Pars.(Elsm)I.839 : By the synne of lecherie, god dreynte al the world at the diluge.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.3298 : Þe goddis wolde haue take wrak..Þe londe to drenche of Deucalyon, And al þis world..To ouerflowe with a fresche deluge.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.pr.6.9 : Thei doon as greet damages..as dooth the flaumbe of the mountaigne Ethna..ne no deluge ne doth so cruele harmes.
- a1500(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Stw 952(1))16777 : Thow art..Thylke Arche off Noe, vn-to the which..in tyme off grete Deluge, alle the worlde ffley vnto.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)5.656 : And fir of liȝtnynge..two & twenti of her shipes brent..þoruȝ þe rage of þis fel deluge.
- c1450(c1393) Chaucer Scog.(Benson-Robinson)14 : Thow causest this diluge of pestilence.
c
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)471 : He skapeth wyseli of dethe the grete deluge.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.1250 : Marius..hadde afforn tak hym to the fliht For feer of Scilla in that mortal deluge, Into a cite to fynde ther refuge.
- c1475(a1449) Lydg.Test.(Hrl 218)537 : Thou art, Iesu, my..refuge..That worldly wawes with ther mortall deluge Ne drowne me nat.