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English
Noun
cheare (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of cheer.
1850, Isaac Disraeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius:It was one of the state maxims of this philosophic monarch, in his advice to his son, "To allure the common people to a common amitie among themselves; and that certain daies in the yeere should be appointed for delighting the people with public spectacles of all honest games and exercise of arms; making playes and lawful games in Maie, and good cheare at Christmas; as also for convening of neighbours, for entertaining friendship and heartliness, by honest feasting and merriness; so that the sabbothes be kept holie, and no unlawful pastime be used.
1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:With chaunge of cheare the seeming simple maid Let fall her eyen, as shamefast to the earth, 240 And yeelding soft, in that she nought gain-said, So forth they rode, he feining seemely merth, And she coy lookes: so dainty they say maketh derth.
Verb
cheare (third-person singular simple present cheares, present participle chearing, simple past and past participle cheared)
- Obsolete spelling of cheer.
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