"lif" meaning in Middle English

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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "word": "lyf"
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis",
          "text": "Sche preide unto the goddes so, / That sche receyveth al the wo / And deide hirself to give him lif.",
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        "Alternative form of lyf"
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  "word": "lif"
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      "expansion": "lif",
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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "lyf"
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          "ref": "1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis",
          "text": "Sche preide unto the goddes so, / That sche receyveth al the wo / And deide hirself to give him lif.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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