Middle English Dictionary Entry
wọ̄p(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | wọ̄p(e n. Also (early SWM) woep & wōpe. |
| Etymology | OE wōp |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. wep(e n.
1.
Weeping, sobbing, shedding of tears; weeping as the visible or audible manifestation of sorrow, lamentation, mourning; also, an instance or a fit of weeping or lamentation [quot. c1225(?c1200)]; also, tears [last quot.]; ?also, grief.
Associated quotations
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)5/28 : Ne rece þu na weamodes wifes wopes, for þan heo þe þæncð oft mid hire wope beswican.
- a1150(OE) Vsp.D.Hom.(Vsp D.14)101/20 : Twifealdne wop sceal ælc man habben on dædbote, ærest þæt he þurh gemeleaste forlet þæt god.
- c1175(OE) Bod.Hom.Dom.2 Quadr.(Bod 343)52/28 : Þer biþ eaȝene wop & toðane grisbatung.
- c1175 Orm.(Jun 1)8137 : Teȝȝre wop & teȝȝre ræm Comm full wel till hiss ære, & he þa forr hiss faderr dæþ Wel wennde þatt teȝȝ wepptenn.
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)125/32 : Bute ðu neme riht of ðe seluen of ðe misdades…mid wake, oððer mid wope and sare beriwsinge…godes wraððe cumþ uppen ðe.
- c1225(?c1200) HMaid.(Bod 34)38/650 : Þeos, for hare sunnen þet ha i flesches fulðe folhið oþer fulieð, leoteð ham lahe & eðliche &…al þe eadi sunegilt Marie Magdaleine, wið bittre wopes, bireowseð hare gultes.
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)161/24 : Wop is sawle heale.
- a1250 Mon may longe (Mdst A.13)40 : In wo sal þi wele enden, in wop þi gle.
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)986 : Þu ȝolest & wones, & ich singe: þi steuene is wop & min skentinge.
- ?a1300 Fiftene toknen (Dgb 86)34 : Þe ferþe day is wel strong, Wop and srichinge þer is among.
- ?a1300 Jacob & J.(Bod 652)128 : Hi drowen vp Iosep mid one longe rope, Ac one gode while ne miȝte he speke for wope.
- ?a1300 Worldes blis ne last (Dgb 86)p.90 : Al the blisse of thisse live Thou shalt, mon, henden in woep [Rwl: wep].
- c1325(c1300) Glo.Chron.A (Clg A.11)9804 : Þe king…vor anguisse nei him sulue he slou…In wop & sorwe & deol inou & confort non him nas.
- c1350(a1333) Shoreham Poems (Add 17376)141/332 : Þat alþer-ferste þat god schop, Þat was heuene, þer nys no wop…For he hyt made of swyche aray For alle manere blysse and play Þer to folfelle.
- c1350 Ayenb.App.(Arun 57)265/5 : Helle is…Vol of brene on-þolyinde…Þer is zorge…Þer is wop and grindinge of teþ, [etc.].
- c1390 Heil sterre (Vrn)20 : Help us in-to heuene fle Out of þis wopes dale.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)1070 : Þey no fode hadde…Bred, browet, ne broþe, ne beste vpon lyue; Wyn ne water to drynke, bot wope [vr. wepyng] of hemself.
- 1448 *Glo.Chron.C (Arms 58:Kooper)f.114r : The hom wop and disaise of his awene men and kynnes myschape aderkede the happie destenes and chaunces of his batailles tofore ido.