Fele vs Sele - What's the difference?
fele | sele |
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Greatly, much, very
(dialectal, or, obsolete) Much; many.
Many (of).
*, Book V:
*:And fele of thy footmen ar brought oute of lyff, and many worshypfull presoners ar yolden into oure handys.
Happiness, fortune.
The right time or occasion for something, an opportune moment.
greeting, salutation
:* {{quote-book
, year=1862
, year_published=
, author=George Borrow
, title=Wild Wales Its People‚ Language and Scenery
, chapter=Chapter XXXV
:* {{quote-book
, year=1897
, year_published=2005
, author=William Morris
, title=The Water of the Wondrous Isles
, chapter=Chapter XIV. The Black Knight Tells the Truth of Himself
, url=
, genre=Fantasy
, publisher=Project Gutenberg
, isbn=
, page=
, passage=When the morning was come ... so she arose and thrust her grief back into her heart, and gave her fellow-farer the sele of the day, ...}}
As an adverb fele
is greatly, much, very.As an adjective fele
is much; many.As a pronoun fele
is many (of).As a noun sele is
happiness, fortune.fele
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Adverb
- For they bring in the substance of the Beere / That they drinken feele too good chepe, not dere.'' ? ''Hakluyts Voyages .
Adjective
(er)- Any maner of thynges desyryt..heraftyr may be had and ygrawnt by the fellyst of the sayd comynes.'' — dated 1456 from J.T. Gilbert, ''Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin , vol. 1 (1889)
Derived terms
* the felest — the majority, mostPronoun
(English Pronouns)Derived terms
* (l) * felefoldAnagrams
* * ----sele
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, genre=Fiction , publisher=Read Central , isbn= , page= , passage= I found my friend honest Pritchard smoking his morning pipe at the front door, and after giving him the sele of the day, ...}}