wemlesse
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Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wemlesse
- Having no wem, or blemish; spotless.
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Orisoune to the Holy Virgin:
- Thou pitouse lady and virgyne wemlesse
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- ?a. 1425, “The Temptation”, in Chester Mystery Plays, lines 25–28:
- Sythen the world first begane / knewe I never such a man / borne of a deadlych woman, / and hee yet wembles.
- Since the world first began, I never knew a man be born of a mortal woman and yet be without blemish.
References
[edit]- “wemless”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.