"lyve" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun form}} lyve
  1. dative singular of lyf Tags: dative, form-of, singular Form of: lyf
    Sense id: en-lyve-enm-noun-Lg7oLWRe
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|enm|verb|altform=1}} lyve
  1. alternative form of lyven Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: lyven
    Sense id: en-lyve-enm-verb-mpxWgbDB Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 18 23 6 20 15 17 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 23 7 20 15 17 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye … [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio cciii, recto:",
          "text": "For I haue herde oꝛ thys of many a wight / Hath loued thynge he neuer ſawe his lyue",
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