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Breme vs Brame - What's the difference?

breme | brame |

As nouns the difference between breme and brame

is that breme is common bream while brame is (obsolete) sharp passion; vexation.

breme

English

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Adjective

  • (obsolete) Stormy, tempestuous, fierce.
  • * late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale :
    • He was war of Arcite and Palamon / Þat fou?ten breme as it were bores two.
  • * 1579 , Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender :
    • Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.
  • * 1748 , James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence :
    • The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme .
    Mallory, "Le Morte d'Arthur":
    "So upon the morn there came Sir Gawaine as brim (breme) as any boar, with a great spear in his hand."
  • * (rfdate), Drayton;
    • From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air.
  • (obsolete) Famous; renowned; well-known.
    • (Wright)

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    brame

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) sharp passion; vexation
  • * Spenser, The Fairie Queene , Book III, Canto II, 52
    • ... hart-burning brame / She shortly like a pyned ghost became.
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