"thew" meaning in Middle English

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Noun

Forms: thewes [plural]
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  1. aspect, trait, thew
    Sense id: en-thew-enm-noun-bSBBTLkQ Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries
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          "english": "To tell all the tale aright / We are shrews, every person / And have dealt in wickedness / As good folk have in goodness / And joy to be known as shrews / And full of vice and wicked traits",
          "ref": "c. 1374–1385 (date written), Geffray Chaucer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The House of Fame. The Thyrde Boke.”, in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London: […] Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], published 1542, →OCLC, folio cccxiiii, verso, column 1:",
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