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English
Noun
enemye (plural enemyes)
- Obsolete spelling of enemy.
Middle English
Noun
enemye
- Alternative form of enemy
a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “2 Paralipomenon 6:28”, in Wycliffe's Bible:If hungur riſiþ in þe lond and peſtilence and ruſt and wynd diſtriynge cornes and a locuste and bꝛuke comeþ and if enemyes biſegen þe ȝatis of þe citee aftir þat þe cuntreis ben diſtried and al veniaunce and ſikenesse oppꝛeſſiþ […]- If hunger rises in the land, and pestilence, rust, wind, destroying grain, and locusts and their young come, and if enemies besiege a city's gates after the city's surrounds are ruined, and when any destruction and disease oppresses (people)