werre

werre

See also: Werre

English

Noun

werre (countable and uncountable, plural werres)

1. Obsolete form of war.
   • 1470–1485 (date produced)​, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum viij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786, leaf 87, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034, lines 11–15, page 173:

     Thenne the batails approuched and ſhoue and ſhowted on bothe ſydes / many men ouerthrowen / hurte / & ſlayn and grete valyaunces / proweſſes and appertyces of werre were that day ſhewed […]

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 werre in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɛrə/

Verb

werre

1. They will

   Sie werre antworte.

   They'll respond.

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English werre, wyrre, borrowed from Old Northern French werre, from Medieval Latin werra, borrowed from Frankish *werru (“confusion; quarrel”).

Alternative forms

• ware, wær, weer, weorre, wer, were, werr, weyr, worre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛr(ə)/, /ˈwɛːr(ə)/
• (Late ME) IPA^(key): /war/

Noun

werre (plural werres or (rare) werren)

1. War in general; a struggle between two opposing forces:

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 1447:

     And bar him so, in pees and eke in werre […]

     And he acted so that, in peace and in war as well, […]

   1. A military conflict or war; a conflict between two opposing forces.
   2. A battle; an instance of struggle between two opposing forces or people.
   3. (rare) An uprising or revolution; an attempt to overthrow authorities.
2. A religious or moral dispute or conflict; a fight with a higher power.
3. Quarreling, disputation, struggling; lack of harmony.
4. A joust, tourney or tilting; an equestrian conflict for sport.
5. (rare) A localised instance of invasion, harassment or intrusion.
6. (rare) The struggling caused by one's quarry while hunting.
7. (rare) A combative or quarrelsome attitude.

Related terms

• werrely
• werren
• werreour
• werreyen
• werrour
• werrynge

 

Descendants

• English: war
• Scots: wer, weir, war

References

• “wer(re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-22.

Verb

werre

1. Alternative form of werren