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1. yāre-witele adj.

Additional spellings: yarewitele
4 quotations in 1 sense
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Ready-witted, intelligent. …

2. yāre adv.

30 quotations in 1 sense
Sense / Definition
(a) Well, thoroughly; completely, fully; also, clearly; also in rime with reduced semantic content; ful yare; knouen (witen) yare; yare soden, ?well heated; ?error for ȝesoden, p.ppl. of sethen v.(1)……

3. yāre adj.

56 quotations in 2 senses
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(a) Prepared, ready; ready (for sth.); with inf.: ready (to do sth.) [sometimes difficult to distinguish from senses 2.(a) & (b) and vice versa]; yare to nede, at (one’s) service (b) completed,……

4. yōre adv.

89 quotations in 4 senses
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(a) At a time long past, long ago, of old; biforen yore (b) earlier, previously; formerly; also, by now [quot. a1375]; yore while, recently, a short time ago; (c) for a long time now; for some time……

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