chierte
See also: chierté
Middle English
Etymology
From Old French cherté. Compare charite.
Noun
chierte (uncountable)
- tender regard, affection
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum Octauum”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786, leaf 311, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034, page 621:
- Whanne the Quene ladyes & 20 gentilwymmen wyſt theſe tydynges / they had ſuche ſorowe & heuyneſſe that ther myght no tonge telle hit / for tho knyghtes had hold them in honour and chyerte
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
References
- “chiertẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- chierte in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913