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Middle English
Etymology
From Latin facundia. See facund.
Noun
facound (uncountable)
- speech; eloquence
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Reeve's Tale", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere ms:
Though she were wise Pallas, dar I seyn / Hir facound eek ful wommanly and pleyn, / No countrefeted termes hadde she / To seme wys, but after hir degree / She spak […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)