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Reve vs Revie - What's the difference?

reve | revie |

As verbs the difference between reve and revie

is that reve is (pt-verb-form-of) while revie is (obsolete) to vie with, or rival, in return.

reve

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (local official).
  • (Piers Plowman)
  • * 14thC', , ''Prologue to the '''Reves Tale'', 1915, ''The College Chaucer , page 94,
  • Ne at this tale I saugh no man hym greve, / But it were oonly Osewold the Reve ;

    revie

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.
  • (obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.
  • (Ben Jonson)
  • (obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.
  • (Webster 1913)