chierte

See also: chierté

English

Etymology

From Old French cherté. See charity.

Noun

chierte (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) love; tender regard

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

   • Thomas Mallory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XIII, Chapter VIII:

     When the queen, ladies, and gentlewomen, wist these tidings, they had such sorrow and heaviness that there might no tongue tell it, for those knights held them in honour and chierté.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “chierte”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• erethic, etheric, heretic, heteric, techier