deduyt

Middle English

Noun

deduyt (plural deduyts)

1. delight
   • Prose Merlin

     Merlin ... thought that a moche fole were he yef he slepte so in his synne to lese his witte and his connynge for to have the deduyt of a mayden

   • Chaucer, the Knight's Tale

     Upon his hand he bar for his deduyt / An egle tame, as any lilye whyt.