preef
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Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
preef
- proof
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 967-968:
- [...] He that semeth the wysest, by Iesus!
Is most fool, whan it cometh to the preef; [...]- [...] He who seems the wisest, by Jesus!
Is the greatest fool, when it comes to the proof; [...]
- [...] He who seems the wisest, by Jesus!
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canon's Yeoman's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 967-968:
References[edit]
- “preef”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.