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Dwere vs Dere - What's the difference?

dwere | dere |

As nouns the difference between dwere and dere

is that dwere is (label) doubt, dread while dere is door.

As an adjective dere is

bitter.

dwere

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) Doubt, dread.
  • *, Book X, Chapter viij:
  • *:Than Kynge Marke rode tyll he com to a fountayne; and there he rested hym by that fountayne, and stoode in a dwere whether he myght ryde to Kynge Arthurs courte other none.

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    dere

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) dere, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Hurt; harm; injury.
    • She did him dere .

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) deren, derien, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (der)
  • To hurt; harm; injure; wound.
  • * c.1390 , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Squire's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
    • And of Achilles with his queynte spere, / For he koude with it bothe heele and dere .
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    • Thenne herd he a voyse say / Galahad I see there enuyronne aboute the so many angels that my power may not dere the /
  • To annoy, trouble, grieve.
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