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Middle English
Verb
wreien
- To reveal
- To betray.
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers 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:
Thou shalt upon thy trouthe swere me heere
That to no wight thou shalt this conseil wreye.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)