disslaundre
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Middle English[edit]
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Verb[edit]
disslaundre
- to slander
- c. 1386–1388 (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Legende of Good Women: (please specify the subtitle)”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC:
- We, that weren in prosperitee,
Be now disslaundred, and in swich degre,
No lenger for to liven I ne kepe- (please add an English translation of this quotation)