† veireadv.n.

Forms:

α. Middle English veir.

β. Middle English vayres, Middle English veires.

γ. Middle English veire, Middle English veyre.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French veir; French veire; French veires.

Etymology: Partly (i) < Anglo-Norman and Old French veir (adverb) truly (c1100), (masculine noun) truth (late 12th cent. or earlier), uses as noun and adverb of Anglo-Norman and Old French veir true (11th cent.); partly (ii) < Anglo-Norman and Old French veire (adverb) truly, (feminine noun) truth (both second half of the 12th cent. or earlier), and partly (iii) < Anglo-Norman veires, veirs (adverb) truly (second half of the 13th cent. or earlier); all ultimately < classical Latin vērus true (see very adj.). The French type in -e reflects classical Latin vēra , neuter plural (e.g. in haec omnia vēra sunt ‘all these things are true’), whereas the French type in -es reflects a Latin adverb, although it is unclear whether the adverb in question is classical Latin vērē or vērō (with the ending of the French word compare certes adv.). Compare also Anglo-Norman and Old French voire (feminine noun) truth (late 12th cent. or earlier), Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French voir (adjective) true (10th cent. as ver ), (masculine noun) truth, (adverb) truly (both second half of the 12th cent.), and Anglo-Norman voirs and Old French voires (end of the 13th cent. or earlier), adverb. With in veire at sense B. compare Anglo-Norman en veir (late 13th cent. or earlier).

Obsolete.

A. adv.

Truly, in truth.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adverb]

mid or with (‥) soothc888

soothfastlya890

soothfastc950

rightOE

yeaOE

soothlyOE

soothOE

trulyc1225

soothrightc1275

purec1300

verament1303

verily1303

purelyc1325

verimentc1325

indeedc1330

veirec1330

soothfully1340

faithlyc1350

of very (due) right?a1366

leallya1375

amenc1384

in soothnessc1386

verya1387

in certaina1400

truea1400

without(en) wougha1400

in veirec1400

in deedc1405

without famec1430

in veramentc1450

utterlyc1460

veritably1481

veritable1490

voirably1501

seriously1644

quite1736

quite1881

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 8613 And haue ich a douhter a fair wiman Fairer not y non veir.

c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 9139 Geauntes strong þer weren to..Minap hete þat on veires Þat oþer..Malgleires.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 5667 Þe addres..conceyueþ of þe sonne, veire, By nature of þe wynde and eire.

B. n.

in veire: sense = A.

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