Middle English Dictionary Entry
verrei n.
Entry Info
| Forms | verrei n. |
| Etymology | From verrei adj.; cp. OF phrases de (en, pour) v(e)rai. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Truth; also, ?righteousness [2nd quot.].
Associated quotations
- (c1384) WBible(1) Prols.Rom.(NYPubLib 67)4.303 : Thes reuokith the apostle to the verrey and the gospels bileue [WB(2): to veri feith and treuthe of the gospel].
- a1500 Prayer in Laudate (1935) (Tit C.19)40 : Dere lady, be to me than a strong toure for my refute…so that the cruel enemys of helle…haue no power to fere me by vertue of the verraie of god, whiche he graunted to the.