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Middle English
Noun
povert
- poverty
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1195-1196:
Povert is hateful good, and, as I gesse,
A ful greet bringer out of bisinesse; [...]- Poverty is a hateful good and, as I guess,
A very great remover of cares;
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