povert
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]povert
- poverty
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1195-1196:
- Povert is hateful good, and, as I gesse,
A ful greet bringer out of bisinesse; [...]- Poverty is a hateful good and, as I guess,
A very great remover of cares; [...]
- Poverty is a hateful good and, as I guess,
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1195-1196:
References
[edit]- “povert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.