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derverye

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From Old French derverie, desverie (“madness”), from derver, desver (“lose one’s reason, go mad”).[1]

Noun

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derverye (uncountable)

  1. Insanity; madness.[1]
    • 1480, William Caxton, chapter X, in Six bookes of Metamorphoses of Ovyde, page VII:
      Withdrawe thyn herte fro such rage and derverye.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “derverye” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
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