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† ˈvillains, a. Obs.
Forms: α. 4 vyleyn(y)s, vileins, 4–5 vileyns (5 vileynes-); 4 vilains-, 4–5 velaynes-, 5 vilayn(e)s-, vylayn(e)s, vyllayns, villaynis. β. 4–5 vylens, vilens (5 vyl-, vilenis, vylence, velens-); 4–5 vilans (5 velans, vilance-), 5–6 vylans, Sc. welan(y)s, willans, 6 villanes; 5 uelonis, vilonis-, vilonys-, vyloyns-.
[a. OF. vileins, vilains (nom. sing. masc.):—pop.L. *villānus: see villain n. and a.]
= villain a., villainous a. a. Of actions, speech, etc.
α1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 1555 Many tyme a vyleynys [v.r. vylens] wurde Gadryþ foule þouþ to hurde. Ibid. 1847 For þat yche vyleyns synne, Ys here body partyd a-twynne. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋46 (Camb. MS.), He dede neuere synne ne neuere cam there a vileyns word out of his mouth. c1450Merlin ii. 26 Thow..haste putte oure frendes to so vileyns deth. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 116 Quha ever strykis with wappin or othir villaynis manȝe. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. iii. (1883) 97 For a man ought not to demande ner doo to be doon to his frende no vyllayns thynge that ought to be kept secrete.
βc1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 4412 Bot other þat wille noght do his rede Sal be done to vilans dede. a1400–50Alexander 4164 He..Come to a velans vale þare was a vile cheele. c1400Destr. Troy 527 Voidis me noght of vitius, ne vilans of tunge. c1440Alph. Tales 236 And at þe laste he sulde hafe a vylans dead. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 25 With gret uelonis wordes, dispraising hym. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 122 He said vilens wordis ageyn the Seint. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xxxiv. 48 He that dyde otherwyse, shulde be reputed as an euyll doer, and for a vylans dede.
b. Of persons.
1390Gower Conf. I. 28 Rome..laste so Long time amonges the Romeins Til thei become so vileins [etc.]. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 104 Man ys hardy as a lyon,..vyleyns and boystous as asse, rebell as a rambe. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 3800 A cowarde and of no renoun, And vileyns of condicion. c1450Merlin vi. 102 Yef he be fool, or fell, or vilenis, ye owe better to suffre hym than eny other. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. xxii. 450 He is the moost coward and the vylaynst kyng and knyght that is now lyuyng. 1556Olde Antichrist 92 Their regestres were neuer ful ynough of such myscheuous villanes popes. |