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单词 perfay
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Forms:

α. Middle English par fai, Middle English parfai, Middle English par fay, Middle English par faye, Middle English par fey, Middle English parfey, Middle English parfeye, Middle English parfoy, Middle English–1500s parfay.

β. Middle English perfey, Middle English perfeye, Middle English perfoy, Middle English profay (transmission error), Middle English–1500s (1800s archaic) perfay, 1500s perfaye, 1500s per fey; Scottish pre-1700 perfai, pre-1700 perfaye, pre-1700 perfey, pre-1700 purfeye, pre-1700 (1800s archaic) perfay, 1800s per fay (archaic); N.E.D. (1905) also records a form late Middle English per fey.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French par fei, par foi.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman par fei and Old French par foi (second half of the 12th cent.; Middle French par foy , Middle French, French par foi ) < par by (see per prep.) + foi faith (see foy n.1).Earlier currency is perhaps suggested by a surname or nickname, Ad. Parfay (1246), although it is unclear whether this should be interpreted as reflecting the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word. N.E.D. (1905) gives the pronunciation as (pəɹfēi·) /pəˈfeɪ/.
Obsolete (archaic and poetic in later use).
By my faith; truly; indeed, certainly; cf. fay n.1 6b.Apparently unattested in the 17th and 18th centuries, perfay was revived in archaic and poetic use in the 19th cent.
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the mind > language > statement > assurance, confirmation, or guarantee > certainly, truly, assuredly [interjection]
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c1300 St. John Evangelist (Laud) 205 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 408 (MED) Par fey..nov ichulle herkni þe.
c1330 Sir Orfeo (Auch.) (1966) 315Parfay,’ quaþ he, ‘Þer is fair game’.
c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3681 Som maner confort shal I haue parfay.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 7838 Þai Did mare harme þan gude parfay.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 39 The land sex ȝer and mayr perfay Lay desolat eftyr hys day.
c1540 Image Ipocrysy iii, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. 408 And then, my lordes, perfay..Not all your gold so gay..Shall serve youe to delaye.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qiiv/1 Parfay, medius fideus.
1802 J. Leyden Ld. Soulis in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border II. 341 Lovely May deserves, per fay, A brideman such as thee!
1865 A. C. Swinburne Masque Queen Bersabe in Poems & Ballads 1st Ser. 117 This knave hath sharp fingers perfay.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 338 Perfay all goeth more than right.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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