peyrement

Middle English

Noun

peyrement

1. impairment
   • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Philippians III:8, page 425, column 1:

     Netheles^x I gesse alle thingis for^y to be peyrement for the cleer science of Jhesu Crist^z. For whom I made alle thingis peirement, and I deme as toordis^a, that I wynne Crist, […]

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References

• “pairment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.