greate
English
Adjective
greate
- Archaic spelling of great.
- 1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure:
- He setteth the high and principall felicitie of man in pleasure, and thiketh that lyfe most pure and godly, whiche may haue greate delectatio and pleasure, and lytle pensiuenes.
- c. 1595, Thomas Nash, The Choise of Valentines:
- 132 Perhaps the sillie worme is labour'd sore, And wearied that it can doe noe more; If it be so, as I am greate a-dread, I wish tenne thousand times that I were dead.
- 1630, William Pemble, A Briefe Introduction to Geography:
- No more then if you should lay a fly vpon a smooth Cartwheele, or a pinnes head vpon a greate globe.
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Anagrams
- ergate