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Middle English
Noun
vilanie (plural vilanies)
- villainy
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC:
Old French
Noun
vilanie oblique singular, f (oblique plural vilanies, nominative singular vilanie, nominative plural vilanies)
- evil
- insult; malicious comment
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