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Middle English   /mˈɪdəl ˈɪŋglɪʃ/   Listen
Middle English

noun
1.
English from about 1100 to 1450.





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"Middle English" Quotes from Famous Books



... difficult to exaggerate the influence of this gift to the English people. It constitutes the standard of Middle English. Chaucer and Wiclif stood side by side. It is true that Chaucer himself accepted Wiclif's teaching, and some of the wise men think that the "parson" of whom he speaks so finely as one who taught the lore of Christ and ...
— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee
... Middle English prose treatise written for a small community of three religious women and their servants at Tarent Kaines (Tarrant Crawford), at the junction of the Stour and the Tarrant, Dorset. It was generally supposed to ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... then did she weep. Can here is the Northern dialect form for the middle English gan, past tense of ginnen, to begin, which was ...
— Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I • Edmund Spenser


Words linked to "Middle English" :   English language, English, West Midland, East Midland, northern, West Saxon, Kentish, southwestern


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