moity

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Noun

moity (plural moities)

  1. Obsolete spelling of moiety.
    • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
      Nor night, nor day, no rest: It is but weaknesse
      To beare the matter thus: meere weaknesse, if
      The cause were not in being: part o'th cause,
      She, th' Adultresse: for the harlot-King
      Is quite beyond mine Arme, out of the blanke
      And leuell of my braine: plot-proofe: but shee,
      I can hooke to me: say that she were gone,
      Giuen to the fire, a moity of my rest
      Might come to me againe. Whose there?
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