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Middle English
Adverb
yfele
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of yvel (“evilly”)
Old English
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Etymology
yfel + -e
Pronunciation
Adverb
yfele (comparative wiers, superlative wierrest)
- badly
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Līfes bōc and þrōwunge Sancte Anastase martyre, sēo wæs yfele of Crēċisċe on Lǣden ġehwierfdu and ġīet wiers fram sumum unġetȳdum ġeryhtu, iċ ġeryhte swā swā iċ meahte.- A book on the life and passion of Saint Anastasius, which was poorly translated from Greek to Latin by some illiterate person and then revised even worse, I corrected as well as I could.
- evilly, wickedly
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