单词 | moveresse |
释义 | moveressen. Editorial emendation (as if < mover n.1 + -ess suffix1) of mynoresse (see quot. a1425). Although the established text of the French original has moverresse, the reading of the English translation probably arises from a textual variant meneresse Minoress n.1 Π a1425 ( Chaucer's Romaunt Rose 149 in W. W. Skeat Wks. Chaucer (1894) I. 99 A-midde saugh I Hate stonde, That for hir wrathe, ire, and onde, Semed to been a moveresse. [Note] Both [i.e. both sources, namely the a1425 Hunterian MS and the 1532 Thynne ed.] mynoresse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.a1425 |
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