See request in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(Late Middle English) What is requested or petitioned for; something that is sought-after."
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"An adventure or heroic journey."
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"(Late Middle English) An adventure or heroic journey."
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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