Middle English Dictionary Entry
quẹ̄m(e)ful adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | quẹ̄m(e)ful adj. Also quæmeful. |
| Etymology | From quẹ̄m(e n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Of a gift, an action, a person, etc.: acceptable or pleasing to God, ~ to, acceptable to (God, Christ); (b) of God: gracious, merciful.
Associated quotations
a
- c1390 Hilton ML (Vrn)279 : Þis desyr..[is] noþing but a loþing of al þis worldly blisse & of al fleschli lyking in þin herte & quemeful [vr. qwemfull] longyng.
- ?c1400(c1340) *Rolle Psalter (Sid 89)Cant.Ez.15 : We schal synge oure psalmes..in goddes hous, þat is, in holy chirche duellond oute þerof, psalme is noght quemeful to ihu crist.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Lev.19.5 : If ȝe offren a sacrifice of pesible thingis to the Lord, that it be quemeful, ȝe schulen ete it in that day.
- a1450(a1396) Hilton CPerf.(Paris angl.41)3 : But þanne is moost acceptable and moost quæmeful to God whanne in wiþdrawinge of deuocioun þou art in tribulacioun and in discunfort, and ȝit þou preiest neuere þe lesse.
b
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Ex.32.12 : This ire ceesse, and be thou quemeful [WB(1): peesyble; L placabilis] on the wickidnesse of thi puple.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Job 33.26 : He schal biseche God, and he schal be quemeful to hym.