delayment
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]delayment
- delay; hindrance
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- He made no delayment
But goth hym home in all bye- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “delayment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.