vilanie
Middle English
Noun
vilanie (plural vilanies)
- villainy
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- They mighten do no vilanie or vice.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Old French
Alternative forms
- vilainie
- vileinie
- vilenie
Noun
vilanie oblique singular, f (oblique plural vilanies, nominative singular vilanie, nominative plural vilanies)
References
- vileinie on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub