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Definition of Verray

Verray
Verray Ver"ray, a. Very; true. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Meaning of Verray from wikipedia

- is idealized. Most readers have taken Chaucer's description of him as "a verray, parfit gentil knyght" to be sincere but Terry Jones suggested that this...
- neuere yet no vileynye he sayde In al his lyf vnto no manere wight. He was a verray parfit gentil knyght." The House of Fame, (1379–1380), line 1830–1831: "We...
- 115.2.351. ISSN 0002-8762. PMID 20509226. Parsons, Ben (2011-03-01). "'Verray goddes apes':Troilus, Seynt Idiot, and Festive Culture". The Chaucer Review...
- reide, And hald in mynde thar nobille worthi deid, We lat ourslide throu verray sleuthfulnes, And castis us ever till uther besynes. Till honour ennymyis...
- labour is in vayn To kepe a shrewe, for it wole nat bee. This holde I for a verray nycetee, To spille labour for to kepe wyves: Thus writen olde clerkes in...
- Corinthians (1 Corinthians 13:13). In the English language, late 13c., verray "true, real, genuine," later "actual, sheer" (late 14c.), from Anglo-French...
- giltes, and to studie to the salvacioun of my soule, and graunte me grace of verray penitence, confessioun and satisfaccioun to doon in this present lyf, thurgh...
- "trouthe is the hyest thyng that man may kepe" so that he too may be called "a verray parfit gentil knyght". Gardner considers that the Franklin's Tale comes...
- over that a brigge, Upon the whiche brook ther stant a melle; And this is verray sooth that I yow telle: A millere was ther dwellynge many a day. The mill...
- She was a frequent companion of Queen Mary; John Knox called Annabella a "verray Jesabell". In 1565 Erskine was granted the earldom of Mar when the queen...