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† deˈlavy, des-, di-, dis-, a. Obs.
Also -lavee, lavé.
[a. OF. deslavé washed away, overflowed, like a flood or inundation, f. des-:—L. dis- + lavé washed.
The OF. word had also the sense ‘unwashed (de- I. 6), befouled, dirty’, retained in Swiss Romance; and perhaps this was present in some of the English examples under sense 2.]
1. Of floods: Overflowing, abundant.
a1400–50Alexander 1351 (MS. D.) Þar flowe owt of fresh wynne flodez enowe, So largly & so delavy [MS. A. delauyly].
2. Of speech or behaviour: Going beyond bounds, immoderate, unbridled, dissolute.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 306 Þise freris ben doumbe..when þei shulde speke..but þei ben dilauy in heere tungis, in gabbyngis & other iapis. ― Sel. Wks. III. 388 [Freris] ben moste dislavy of hor veyn speche and worldly. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 555 As seith Salamon, The amyable tonge is the tree of lyf..and soothly a deslauee [v.r. deslaue, dislave, disselaue; Vulg. Prov. xv. 4, immoderata] tonge sleeth the spirites of hym that repreueth and eek of hym that is repreued. Ibid. 760 Mesure also, that restreyneth by reson the deslauee [v.r. dislave, delaue, delavy] appetit of etynge. c1422Hoccleve Jereslaus' Wife 901 A shipman which was a foul lecchour..to his contree Him shoop lede hire this man delauee.
Hence † deˈlavily adv. [see above, sense 1]; † deˈlaviness.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 298 Dilavynesse of tunge in spekinge wordis oþer þan Goddis is passynge fro good religioun. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 156 Mary Mawdelyn..hir youthe in dislavynesse Of hir body so unshamefastly She dispendyd. a1500Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 168, I shent myselfe wiþ so grete delauynesse, turnynge to my-selfe after þe sermon. |