agrief

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Middle English

Etymology

a- +‎ grief

Adverb

agrief

In grief; amiss.
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Nun's Priest's Tale: 126-8.
  And he answerde and seyde thus, 'Madame,
  I pray yow that ye take it nat agrief.
  By God, me thoughte I was in swich meschief [...]'
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References

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

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