agrief

English

Etymology

a- +‎ grief

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /əˈɡɹiːf/

Adverb

agrief (comparative more agrief, superlative most agrief)

  1. (obsolete) In grief; amiss.
    • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Nun's Priest's Tale: 126-8.
      And he answerde and seyde thus, 'Madame,
      I pray yow that ye take it nat agrief.
      By God, me thoughte I was in swich meschief [...]'

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for agrief in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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