resoun

Middle English

Verb

resoun

1. resound

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

Noun

resoun

1. reason
   • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: Prologue.

     Er that I ferther in this tale pace,

     Me thynketh it acordaunt to resoun

     To telle yow al the condicioun

     Of ech of hem, so as it semed me.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “resoun”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)