derverye

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Middle English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French derverie, desverie (“madness”), from derver, desver (“lose one’s reason, go mad”).[1]

Noun[edit]

derverye (uncountable)

  1. Insanity; madness.[1]
    • 1480, William Caxton, chapter X, in Six bookes of Metamorphoses of Ovyde, page VII:
      Withdrawe thyn herte fro such rage and derverye.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “derverye” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
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