verrayment
English
Etymology
From Old French veraiement. See very.
Adverb
verrayment (comparative more verrayment, superlative most verrayment)
- (obsolete) verily; truly
- 1387, Chaucer, “v. 713”, in Tale of Sir Thopas:
- Listeth, lordes, in good entent, And I wol telle verrayment
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for verrayment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)