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Middle English
- meoseise, meseise, miseise, mesayse, myseise, mysese, myseyse, misese, myses, mysease, myssaes, mesaise, messais, mezayse, mezeyse, misais, meseyse, meseys, miseyse, myseese, meseysey, misseise, mysaye, myssayse, missays, meseis, misaise, myssese
Etymology
From Old French mesaise, from mes- (“mis-”) + aise (“ease”). Equivalent to mys- + ease, ese.
Noun
myssease (plural mysseases)
- suffering, distress
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xix”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX, by
William Caxton], published
31 July 1485,
→OCLC; republished as H
Oskar Sommer, editor,
Le Morte Darthur , London:
David Nutt,
,
1889,
→OCLC:
I ded to hym no displesure – and God knowith I am full sory for hys maledye and hys myssease.- I did to him no displeasure - and God knows I am full sorry for his maledy and his misease.
Adjective
myssease
- suffering; in pain; wretched
Descendants
References
- “misēse, n..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “misēse, adj..”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.