See freelte in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"roman": "This al and som he heeld virgynytee / More profit than weddyng in freeltee / Freeltee clepe I, but if that he and she / wolde leden al hir lyf in chastitee",
"text": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; lines 97-100; (This reading only found in Royal MS 17 D XV; others read frelete--see Walter W Skeat (editor), Geoffrey Chaucer, \"Index, Freletee\" in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer; Oxford, Volume 6.)",
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