Middle English Dictionary Entry
hūmain(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | hūmain(e adj. Also humaigne. |
| Etymology | OF h)umain |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Human; nature ~; ~ linage, mankind; ~ pilgrimage, Guillaume de Deguileville's Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine.
Associated quotations
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)143/22 : For the gret compassion and pitee that he hadde upon all humaigne lynage.
- c1475 St.Anne(2) (Trin-C R.3.21)492 : When the moder of good, blessyd mary, That day she sprang in oure nature humayne.
- a1500 *Nicod.(4) (Hrl 149:Hulme)272b : Thou..hast brought oute of seruage þe humayne lynage.
- a1500 Partenay (Trin-C R.3.17)951 : Neuer humain ey saw to it egal!
- 1558(a1456) Shirley TContents(2) (Add 29729)21 : In sondry place haue I them soughte..as fortune hathe them brought to me: ffirst ye humayne pilgrymage sayd all by proose in fayre langage.