priefe
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[edit]Noun
[edit]priefe (countable and uncountable, plural priefes)
- Obsolete spelling of proof. [16th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For onely worthy you through prowes priefe / Yf liuing man mote worthy be, to be her liefe.