warous

Middle English

Etymology

Latin avarus

Adjective

warous

1. avaricious
   • c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “Passus. xv. finit de dowell, et incipit dobet”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC, folio lxxix, recto:

     Curatours of holy kyrke as clerkes y^e bene warous, / Lightly that they leven, loſels it habbeth, / Or dyeth inteſtat, and the biſſhop entreth, [...]

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