stiborn

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Middle English

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Adjective

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stiborn

  1. Alternative form of stiborne
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 637-640:
      Stiborn I was as is a leonesse,
      And of my tonge a verray Iangleresse,
      And walke I wolde, as I had doon biforn,
      From hous to hous, al-though he had it sworn.’
      ‘I was as stubborn as is a lioness,
      And of my tongue a true chatterbox,
      And I would walk, as I had done before,
      From house to house, although he had sworn the contrary.’