answere
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
answere (plural answeres)
Verb[edit]
answere (third-person singular simple present answeres, present participle answering, simple past and past participle answered)
- Obsolete spelling of answer.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- Nay anſwere me. Stand and vnfolde your ſelfe.
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Middle English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old English andswaru, from Proto-West Germanic *andaswaru, from Proto-Germanic *andaswarō; equivalent to and- + sware. The vocalism is presumably from the verb answeren.
Alternative forms[edit]
- andsware, anndswere, and-sware, ansuer, ansuere, answar, answer, answore, onsware, unswere, aunsware, awnswere
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
answere (plural answers)
- A response to a query or questioning; an answering.
- The answer for a problem or challenge; a solving.
- A decision or response coming from a deity or divinity.
- A legal defence or the privilege of being able to mount one.
- (rare) A reply to a point; a counterpoint or countering.
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Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “answēre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-03.
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
answere
- Alternative form of answeren
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