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† diˈswere Obs.
Also dys-, -ware, -wary, -weare.
[f. dis- 5 + were n.3 doubt, hesitation.]
Doubt. wythout diswere, without doubt, ‘ywis’: common as a metrical tag.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 25 Lay þo tenche opon a platere fayre, Do on þat browet withouten disware. c1440Promp. Parv. 123/2 Dyswere, or dowte, dubium. c1450Cov. Myst. 383 Seynt Ihon the Evangelist wrot and tauht, as I lere, In a book cleped Apocriphun, wythoutyn dyswary. c1450Bk. Curtasye 436 in Babees Bk., Gromes palettis shyn fyle and make litere, ix fote on lengthe with-out diswere. a1500H. Brereton Song, Lady Bessy (Way Promp. Parv.), You promised..To him to be both true and just, And now you stand in a disweare. |