Middle English Dictionary Entry
povre n.
Entry Info
| Forms | povre n. Also power. |
| Etymology | From adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Poverty.
Associated quotations
- a1425 Ordin.Nuns(1) (Lnsd 378)142/8 : The secunde is þat þe behouis liue in wilfull power, na thing awand with-owtyn wittyng of þi priores.
- ?c1425(c1390) Chaucer Fort.(Benson-Robinson)2 : This wrecched worldes transmutacioun, As wele or wo, now povre [vrr. poeere, poure, pore; pouerte] and now honour.