"libel" meaning in Middle English

{
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from Latin libellus (“little book”).",
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "enm",
          "name": "Law",
          "orig": "enm:Law",
          "parents": [
            "Justice",
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            "Entry maintenance"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I have (he said) a bill of summons here: / On pain of excommunication make sure that you appear / Tomorrow morning at the archdeacon's knee … Now Lord (she said) Jesus king of kings / Help me, as I cannot … Could I ask for a copy of the charges, sir summoner, / And have my proctor appear for me / For whatever it is that I am accused of?",
          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres 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, folio xliiii, verso, column 1:",
          "text": "I haue ȹ he, of ſommõs of the here a byl / Up payne of curſyng loke that thou be / To moꝛowe befoꝛe our Archdeacons kne [...] Now loꝛde ȹ ſhe, Jeſu kyng of kynges / So wiſely helpe me, as I ne may [...] May I nat aſke a lybel ſyꝛ Sompnour / And anſwere there by my pꝛoctour / To ſuche thyng as men wolde appoſen me?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any short and formal written text",
        "A litigant's statement of complaint, or list of charges"
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "Any short and formal written text",
        "(law) A litigant's statement of complaint, or list of charges"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
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        },
        {
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[ KJV ] It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.",
          "ref": "c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Matthew V:31–32, page 12:",
          "text": "And it hath be seyd, Who euere leeueth his wijf, ȝyue he to hir a libel of forsakying. But Y seie to ȝou, that euery man that leeueth his wijf, outtakun cause of fornycacion, makith hir to do letcherie, and he that weddith the forsaken wijf, doith auowtrye.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any short and formal written text",
        "Any written formal complaint, particularly in marital conflicts"
      ],
      "id": "en-libel-enm-noun-uOeianPu",
      "links": [
        [
          "marital",
          "marital"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any short and formal written text",
        "A treatise; a division of a larger work."
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
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      "word": "lybel"
    }
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  "word": "libel"
}

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    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Ultimately from Latin libellus (“little book”).",
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "enm:Law"
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        {
          "english": "I have (he said) a bill of summons here: / On pain of excommunication make sure that you appear / Tomorrow morning at the archdeacon's knee … Now Lord (she said) Jesus king of kings / Help me, as I cannot … Could I ask for a copy of the charges, sir summoner, / And have my proctor appear for me / For whatever it is that I am accused of?",
          "ref": "1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres 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, folio xliiii, verso, column 1:",
          "text": "I haue ȹ he, of ſommõs of the here a byl / Up payne of curſyng loke that thou be / To moꝛowe befoꝛe our Archdeacons kne [...] Now loꝛde ȹ ſhe, Jeſu kyng of kynges / So wiſely helpe me, as I ne may [...] May I nat aſke a lybel ſyꝛ Sompnour / And anſwere there by my pꝛoctour / To ſuche thyng as men wolde appoſen me?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any short and formal written text",
        "A litigant's statement of complaint, or list of charges"
      ],
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "Any short and formal written text",
        "(law) A litigant's statement of complaint, or list of charges"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[ KJV ] It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.",
          "ref": "c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume IV, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Matthew V:31–32, page 12:",
          "text": "And it hath be seyd, Who euere leeueth his wijf, ȝyue he to hir a libel of forsakying. But Y seie to ȝou, that euery man that leeueth his wijf, outtakun cause of fornycacion, makith hir to do letcherie, and he that weddith the forsaken wijf, doith auowtrye.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Any short and formal written text",
        "Any written formal complaint, particularly in marital conflicts"
      ],
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    },
    {
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        "Any short and formal written text",
        "A treatise; a division of a larger work."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "lybel"
    }
  ],
  "word": "libel"
}