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† mauvasty Obs.
Also 5 mauayste.
[a. OF. malvaistié, mauvaistié, wickedness, f. malveis, mauvais, bad. Cf. mavite.]
Wickedness, malice.
1474Caxton Chesse ii. i, Thou ne say that thou shalt do it by pouerte but by euyl and mauayste. Ibid. ii. v, A gyfte of grete felonye and of mauastrye [sic]. 1483― G. de la Tour xxii. L iv, In this..is not loue, but rather it is grete falshede and mauuastye. |