derverye

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old French derverie, desverie (madness), from derver, desver (lose one’s reason, go mad).[1]

Noun

derverye (uncountable)

  1. Insanity; madness.[1]
    • 1480, William Caxton, chapter X, in Six bookes of Metamorphoses of Ovyde, page VII:
      Withdrawe thyn herte fro such rage and derverye.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 derverye” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary