agrief

Middle English

Etymology

a- +‎ grief

Adverb

agrief

  1. In grief; amiss.
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Nun's Priest's Tale: 126-8.
      And he answerde and seyde thus, 'Madame,
      I pray yow that ye take it nat agrief.
      By God, me thoughte I was in swich meschief [...]'
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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