Middle English Dictionary Entry
insipience n.
Entry Info
| Forms | insipience n. Also incipiens. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Lack of wisdom, foolishness.
Associated quotations
- (?c1412) Hoccl.Bedford (Hnt HM 111)17 : But yit truste I þt his beneuolence Compleyne wole myn insipience Secreetly & what is mis rectifie.
- (?c1425) Hoccl.Jonathas (Dur-U Cosin V.3.9)228 : This Ionathas, this innocent yong man..The ryng hir tooke, of his insipience.
- a1500 When nettuls (BodPoet e.1)p.269 : Whan..in women be fownd no incypyens, Than put hem in trust and confydens.