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English
Adjective
keene (comparative more keene, superlative most keene)
- Obsolete form of keen.
c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act III, scene ii, page 268, column 2:Ophe[lia] You are keene my Lord, you are keene. / Ham[let] It would coſt you a groaning, to take off my edge.
Low German
Pronoun
keene
- feminine/plural of keen
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Particle
keene
- contrastive particle
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “keene”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
Yola
Noun
keene
- Alternative form of keeine
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 49