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† vilesse Obs. rare.
[a. OF. villesse (-esce), var. viellesce, etc. (mod.F. vieillesse), f. vieil old.]
Old age.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 32 Thouhe she be yong, yet wol she..take a buffard riche of gret vilesse. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. ix. (1869) 181 Þou shalt, quod she, wite whan þou hast seyn vilesse, and þat she shal bicomen in þee. And where is vilesse, quod j, and where dwelleth she, and what thing is it? [In ch. lv, p. 202, of this work the reading viletee is prob. an error for vilece.] |