Middle English Dictionary Entry
fāle adj.
Entry Info
Forms | fāle adj. |
Etymology | Cp. OI fal-r venal, for sale. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
?Unheeding, unmindful, willing to dispense (with something).
Associated quotations
- c1400(?c1380) Patience (Nero A.10)92 : Jonas..nolde þole for no þyng non of þose pynes, Þaȝ þe fader þat hym formed were fale of his hele. 'Oure syre..gloumbes ful lyttel, Þaȝ I be numen in Nuniue & naked dispoyled.'