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vilement (s.xiiex)

vilement (s.xiiex)

villement;  vilment,  viument  (vileyment  Court Bar 42)  

adv.

1ignominiously
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  morz e seveliz e posez sur un quaire Vilment envolupez de [mult] povre suaire  GUISCH 348
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  (A necromancer) Puis fist eles pur voler, Mes malement les sout atemprer, Mult vilement prist a trebucher  Brut Royal 1199
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  pité l'em prent Que si gentils home girroit si vilement  LANGTOFT thiol2 I 85
2criminally, wrongfully
( c.1285; MS: c.1312 )  Veez qe votre bercher ne seit pas trop irrous, qar par une ire auqune (= sheep) peot estre vilement chacee, dunt ele purreyt estre perye  HENLEY2 336
( 1292-93 )  le vaunt dit Geffrey [...] batyrent e vileynement defolerent e vilement treterent  Sel Bills Eyre 56
( MS: c.1310 )  l'avantdit A. [...] vileynement (var. (D3: s.xiv1/3>) vilement) ousta  Nov Narr 303
( 1343-50 )  la monoye qe fut vilement [...] fausé  Cron Lond1 15.17
vilement vestu
poorly dressed
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  [...] tant par ert vilment vestu  Dial Greg SATF 1447
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vilement