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Middle English
Verb
dearen
- to hurt
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
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William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
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Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
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And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere […].- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /
"Then heard he a voice say Galahad, I see there environ about thee so many angels that my power may not dere thee"- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Than herde he a voyce sey, ‘Sir Galahad, I se there envyrowne aboute the so many angels that my power may nat deare the!’- (please add an English translation of this quotation)