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Verye vs Herye - What's the difference?

verye | herye |

As an adjective verye

is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As a verb herye is

to honour, praise or celebrate.

verye

English

Adjective

(verier)
  • * 1562': ''The '''Verye Trueth of the Conference Betvvixt the Queene Mother, and the Prince of Conde, Iulye, 1562 , main title (W. Seres?)
    • The Verye Trueth of the Conference Betvvixt the Queene Mother, and the Prince of Conde, Iulye, 1562

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    herye

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To honour, praise or celebrate.
  • * (editor), Alexander Chalmers (additional lives), ''The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper , Volume 1, page 251,
    • How I mote tell anon right the gladnesse / Of Troilus, to Venus herying , / To the which who nede hath, God him bring.
  • * 14thC , '', 2002, Marion Wynne-Davies (editor), ''The Tales of The Clerk and The Wife of Bath , page 94,
    • And whan that folk it to his fader tolde, / Nat oonly he, but al his contree merye / Was for this child, and God they thanke and herye .
  • * 14thC , William de Shoreham, 1851, Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages , Volume 28, Percy Society, page 117,
    • Thyse aungeles heryeth here wyth stevene, / Ase he hys hare quene of he[ve]ne.
  • * 1563 , , Volume 1, page 563,
    • And Lord God, what herying is it to bilden thee a church of dead stones, and robben thy quicke churches of their bodilich liuelood?
  • * 1579 , : November'', 2012, Marie Loughlin, Sandra Bell, Patricia Brace (editors), ''The Broadview Anthology of Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose , page 797,
    • Thenot'', now nis the time of merimake. / Nor ''Pan to herye , nor with love to playe.

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    * (l)