wrecche

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Middle English

Adjective

wrecche

  1. wretched
    • Mid-1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book IV, lines 270-273:
      O Troilus, what may men now thee calle
      But wrecche of wrecches, out of honour falle
      Into miserie, in which I wol biwayle
      Criseyde, allas! Til that the breeth me fayle?
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