warous
Middle English
Etymology
Latin avarus
Adjective
warous
- avaricious
- c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “Passus. xv. finit de dowell, et incipit dobet”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, OCLC 837479643, folio lxxix, recto:
- Curatours of holy kyrke as clerkes ye bene warous, / Lightly that they leven, loſels it habbeth, / Or dyeth inteſtat, and the biſſhop entreth, [...]
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