amenusen
Middle English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French amenuisier. See minute.
Verb
editamenusen (third-person singular simple present amenuseth, present participle amenusende, amenusynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle amenused)
- to lessen
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Parson's Tale, Second Part, Beginning, 21.
- For sothe, the dede of this venial synne is ful perilous; for it amenuseth the love that men sholde han to God moore and moore.
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- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Parson's Tale, Second Part, Beginning, 21.
- [...] And therfore, it a man charge hymself with manye swiche venial synnes, certes, but if so be that he somtyme descharge hym of hem by shrifte, they mowe ful lightly amenuse in hym al the love that he hath to Jhesu Crist; [...]
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- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Parson's Tale, Second Part, Beginning, 21.
Descendants
edit- English: adminish
References
edit- “amenuse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.