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pardieint.adv.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French pardeu. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French pardeu, pardi, par Dé, par Dieu (12th cent. in Old French; French pardi , pardieu ) < par by (see per prep.) + Deu , Di , Dieu God (see deus int.).In forms with final -x perhaps after the French plural dieux. Now archaic and rare. the mind > language > statement > assurance, confirmation, or guarantee > certainly, truly, assuredly [interjection] α. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2046 in C. Horstmann (1887) 165 (MED) Wenstþou þat ichulle fleo? Nai par deu, nouȝt a fote. c1387–95 G. Chaucer 563 Wel koude he stelen corn and tollen thries, And yet he hadde a thombe of gold, pardee. a1425 (?a1350) (Galba) (1907) 239 Pilat said, es þis he, þat herod soght to sla?.. Sir, ȝa parde [v.r. pardye], bot þus he passed him fra. ?a1475 (1922) 113 (MED) I myght wel A wyst, parde, So good a creature as she wold nevyr A done trespace. ?1544 J. Heywood sig. B.iii In that ye palmer as debite May clerely dyscharde hym parde. 1572 (a1500) (1882) 168 The hous is myne, pardie. 1630 J. Wadsworth (new ed.) ii. 10 I pardi demanding..how they could take such an oath.., they answered. 1748 T. Smollett I. xix. 160 Pardieu! le capitaine Odonnell be one. a1754 H. Fielding (1778) iii. 54 Pardie! Sir, your most humble servant. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. i. 15 But, pardieu, he..knows all the Neviles by eye. 1897 F. Thompson (1946) 173 As I went down by lane and lea The daisies reddened so, pardie! 1905 Baroness Orczy v. 43 ‘Pardieu, my good man,’ said Lady Blakeney, with some impatience, ‘what are you standing in my way for?’ 1930 R. Kipling 7 He was of exemplary life. Pardi, he had to be! β. 1447 O. Bokenham (Arun.) (1938) 1895 For blessyd is hyr seed, whos dawghter shal be Modyr of blysse euerlastynge, perde.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) v. 545 Bot how that euir it fell, perde, I trow he sall the varrar be.1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. John xix. 115 A place perdye detestable.a1563 J. Bale (1969) ii. 2102 Simon of Swynsett my very name is, per dee.1603 W. Shakespeare iii. ii. 281 And if the king like not the tragedy, Why then belike he likes it not perdy [1623 perdie].a1666 R. Fanshawe tr. A. Hurtado de Mendoza (1670) ii. 72 Perdie, to see thee in this plain, Grypes many a sprunt and jolly Swain.1748 J. Thomson i. xxi Not to move on, perdie, is all they can.1827 W. Tennant 39 Perdé! he thoucht he was in's boat, Sailin' for pastime and for play.1858 C. Kingsley 32 There's Tyrrel as sour as I, perdie.1905 A. C. Swinburne III. 134 For all my subtle wiles, perdie, God wot I loved him well enow.This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < int.adv.c1300 |