Category:Middle English terms by usage
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Middle English terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.
- Category:Middle English colloquialisms: Middle English terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
- Category:Middle English derogatory terms: Middle English terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
- Category:Middle English dialectal terms: Middle English terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
- Category:Middle English ecclesiastical terms: Middle English terms used only by religious figures.
- Category:Middle English familiar terms: Middle English terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
- Category:Middle English formal terms: Middle English terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
- Category:Middle English hapax legomena: Middle English terms that are attested only once in the entire corpus.
- Category:Middle English higher register terms: Middle English terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
- Category:Middle English nonstandard terms: Middle English terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
- Category:Middle English poetic terms: Middle English terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
- Category:Middle English polite terms: Middle English polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
- Category:Middle English rare terms: Middle English terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
- Category:Middle English technical terms: Middle English terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
- Category:Middle English terms of address: Middle English terms used to refer to another person.
- Category:Middle English terms with historical senses: Middle English terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
- Category:Middle English terms with obsolete senses: Middle English terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
- Category:Middle English terms with rare senses: Middle English rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
- Category:Middle English terms with uncommon senses: Middle English uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
- Category:Middle English uncommon terms: Middle English uncommonly used terms.
- Category:Middle English vulgarities: Middle English terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
Subcategories
This category has the following 20 subcategories, out of 20 total.
C
- Middle English colloquialisms (0 c, 3 e)
D
- Middle English derogatory terms (0 c, 22 e)
- Middle English dialectal terms (0 c, 4 e)
E
- Middle English ecclesiastical terms (0 c, 3 e)
F
- Middle English familiar terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Middle English formal terms (0 c, 6 e)
H
- Middle English hapax legomena (0 c, 78 e)
N
P
- Middle English poetic terms (0 c, 30 e)
- Middle English polite terms (0 c, 3 e)
R
- Middle English rare terms (0 c, 586 e)
T
- Middle English technical terms (0 c, 1 e)
- Middle English terms of address (0 c, 8 e)
- Middle English terms with historical senses (0 c, 13 e)
- Middle English terms with obsolete senses (0 c, 5 e)
- Middle English terms with uncommon senses (0 c, 12 e)
U
- Middle English uncommon terms (0 c, 38 e)
V
- Middle English vulgarities (0 c, 16 e)