ragery

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Middle English

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Noun

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ragery

  1. Wantonness.
    • Late 1300s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,”[1]
      And after that he sang ful loude and cleere,
      And kiste his wyf, and made wantown cheere
      He was al coltissh, ful of ragerye,
      And ful of jargon as a flekked pye.