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Date: woensdag 12 september 2012 16:23
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | *ich*-2 |
| Middle English | *ich*-2|$þus|ođerweis|togedere|ely|ye|þe |
| early Modern English | *ich*-2|*ich*-1|*ich*-4|*ich*-3|*ich*-5|*ich*-7|*ich*-9|*t*-3|*ich*-11|*ich*-10 |
| Modern British English | *ich*-2 |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| *ich*-1 | My paper only now allowes mee roome to beg your Exc=eyes= pardon for this tedious narrative wch is ye true state of matters of fact betweene both Houses. [aungier-e3-h,27,P.42] |
| *ich*-10 | but they driue them quite thorow all the water vesselles into the chamber pot or vrinall, for the which cause they are called in Greeke, that is, driuers forth of water and vrine, and such things as are in the vrine. Which name they haue not, bicause as some men doe dreame they bring many humors wherof the stone is made, to the kidneys and bladder, and let them lie there, as it were rotting in a dunghill, but as a faire and thin water casten into a canel of a streete if it haue one to driue it forwarde, not onelye carieth it selfe awaye forth of the towne into the common sinke that is without the towne, but also the filthines that hath bene in the canell long before, euen so that small white wine that hath a nature to driue forth it selfe, and with it other things that are necessarie to be driuen out by the vrine, breedeth not humors in the water vesselles, but driueth them quite away, and suffereth them not to tarie there, [turner-e1-h,D1R.135] |
| *ich*-11 | And whereas a very usefull and profitable Invention or Mystery hath beene lately found out for the better and more speedy makeing and knitting of Worsted and Silke Stockings Wastcoates Gloves and other wearing Necessaries whereby great Quantities are wrought off in a little tyme His Majesties Dominions abundantly supplyed and great Quantities exported into Foreigne Nations to the Increase of His Majesties Customes and the Improvement of Trade and Commerce And whereas severall of the Frames or Engines for the makeing and knitting of such Stockings and other weareing Necessaries have beene of late exported out of this Kingdome whereby the said Commodities have beene made in Foreigne Parts which were heretofore made in this Kingdome onely to the great Discouragement of the Woollen Trade in generall and the great detriment of the said Mystery and the Impoverishment of many Familyes who have beene thereby maintained For the Prevention of which Inconveniencies for the future bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six noe Person or Persons whatsoever shall load or putt on board any Shipp or Vessell any such Frame or Frames or any Part or Parcell thereof in order to bee exported beyond the Seas upon payne that the Person or Persons offending herein shall not onely forfeite or loose such Frame and Frames Parts or Parcells of Frames which shall bee soe loaden and putt on board in order to be exported beyond the Seas as aforesaid but also the Summe of Forty Pounds of lawfull Money of England for such Frame or Part or Parcell thereof [stat-1690-e3-h,VII,98.45] |
| *ich*-2 | Nay, let a man looke into the gouernement of the $Bishops of Rome, as by name, into the gouernement of Pius Quintus, and Sextus Quintus, in our times, who were both at their entrance esteemed, but as Pedanticall Friers [bacon-e2-p1,1,8V.95] |
| *ich*-3 | And if ther be any good thing in nobilitie, this I think it only, that it breedes the hauers a constraynte, that they may not degenerate from their auncestors vertue. [boethel-e2-p2,53.177] |
| *ich*-4 | Ad to this that, though but small it self, enuirond is with habitation of many nations tongues and conditions, that in all trade of lyfe differs, To which not only no report of ech man, but not of Cities can com through hardnes of way & difference of speech, and diuers traffik. [boethel-e2-p1,38.518] |
| *ich*-5 | Also if a Merchant stranger, bring wares or merchandize from a farre Countrey: as from Chyna, Bengalla, and thinketh hee shall make a bad voiage, or lose thereby: if hee acquaint the King therewith, and that the merchandize bee fit for Kings, Princes, and Noble men, the King himselfe will take part thereof, and cause his Nobles to take the rest, at such rates as the Merchant, shall not only bee a sauer, but a great gainer thereby. [coverte-e2-h,37.164] |
| *ich*-7 | The Bezoar -Stone is purchased at this Mart, being said to be found in the Stomach of the Mountain-Goats hereabouts, occasioned by some Plant they delight to feed on, to which they attribute its Growth: On which Subject more may be seen in Bontius Junior's Animadversions on the Second and Sixth Paragraph of Garcius ab Orta`: Whose Words are to this Effect; ' This Stone I find not only to be generated in Persia, but also in other Parts of the World; [fryer-e3-p1,2,194.148] |
| *ich*-9 | Ninthly, that as there are these several parts that will rarifie and fly, or be driven up by the heat, so are there many others, that as they are indissoluble by the aerial menstruum, so are they of such sluggish and gross parts, that they are not easily rarify'd by heat, and therefore $can $not be rais'd by it; the volatility or fixtness of a body seeming to consist only in this, that the one is of a texture, or has component parts that will be easily rarify'd into the form of Air, and the other, that it has such as will not, without much ado, be brought to such a constitution; [hooke-e3-p1,104.67] |
| *t*-3 | Surely the experiens we haue had of your lyfe past and godly conuersacion, and wholesome counsaile, and verteous example, and a suretie not only of the continuaunce of the same, but also a great encrese by the goodnes of our Lorde to the great rest and gladnes of your hart deuoyd of all earthly dregges, and garnished with the noble vesture of heauenly vertues, a pleasant pallais for the Holy Spirite of God to rest in, who defend you as I doubt not, good father, but of his goodnes he wyll from all trouble of minde and of body, and gyue me your most louinge obedient dowghter and handmaide, and all vs your children and frendes, to folow that that we prayse in you, and to our onely comfort remembre and comin together of you, that we may in conclusion mete with you, mine owne dere father, in the blisse of heauen to which our most mercifull Lord hath bought vs with his precious blood. [mroper-e1-h,511.5] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| *ich*-2 | And from there I would look out over the ceaseless clashing of the sea and river, not only to the heights of Penmaenbach and the ever-changing hills of Mona, but what I have as yet said nothing of, and what is, perhaps, the greatest of the many charms of Deganwy. [bradley-1905,199.35] |
| *ich*-3 | For since Men who know little or nothing of French, Italian, or Spanish, quickly learn any one of these Languages, only by going twice or thrice a Week to a Club, where they are oblig'd to speak it; we may reasonably think that Men wou'd learn Latin after the same Method, and almost with the same Ease [anon-1711,16.162] |
| *ich*-4 | but they were both in high Estimation with the Publick, and so much the Delight and Concern of the Court, that they were not only supported by its being frequently present at their publick Presentations, but by its taking cognizance even of their private Government, insomuch, that their particular Differences, Pretentions, or Complaints were generally ended by the King, or Duke's Personal Command or Decision. [cibber-1740,54.242] |
| *ich*-5 | This therefore it has been the drift of all the instruction you have had from me, to lay fairly and fully before you; and to impress well these eternal truths, not only on your minds, but your hearts too: [wollaston-1793,5.26] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $+tus | wiđ $þus $anwil halsung. ropeđ efter sum help. $to $þe wreche meoseise. tolechne wiđ þe secke. to healen hire cancre. [cmancriw-1,II.245.3543] |
| +te | Þe grettest maystyr of hem seyd to þe man, ' Why lawhyst þu, broþel, & art þow gretly despysed? ' [cmkempe,28.619] |
| ely | and after him regnede Seisel and Kyng Bled xxj ġere; and Kyng Grabreth xj ġere; and Archinal xiiij ġere; and Erol xxx ġere; And Rodengu xxxij ġere; and Herter v ġere, and Hampir vj ġere, And Carpoir vij ġere, and Digneile iij ġere, and Samuel xxiiij ġere, and Rede ij ġere, and Ely vij mouneþs; [cmbrut3,31.950] |
| o+derweis | swa & nan ođerweis. [cmancriw-2,II.266.346] |
| togedere | Naut for þi $ich $wat swich þt beređ ba togedere heui brunie & here. ibunden wiđ iren middel. þech & armes Mid brade þicke bondes. swa þt þe swat þrof is passiun to þolien. festeđ. wakeđ swinkeđ. [cmancriw-2,II.280.578] |
| ye | I truste ye shalle knowe aftyr in tyme comyng by Goddys grace, hoo have us alle in hys blessyd kepyng. [cmgregor,232.2435] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | |
| Middle English | allswa |
| early Modern English | |
| Modern British English |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| allswa | | & allswa summ þe mann ne maġġ | | Nohht wurrþenn borenn twiġess | | Off moderr & off faderr stren, | | To cumenn her to manne, | | Allswa ne birrþ nohht Cristess þeww | | O Cristess name wurrþenn | | Twa siþess borenn att te funnt, | | Ne wurrþenn twiġess fullhtnedd, | | To cumenn upp till heffness ærd, | | Upp inntill eche blisse, | | Þohh þatt he be þurrh defless þeww | | O Godess name fullhtnedd. | [cmorm,II,242.2495] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | elles|ana|$ana|buton|butan|ane|buten|ælles|æalles|butun |
| Middle English | only|but|alone|onlyche|bote|oonly|bute|þach|ġet|$bute|anes|an|yet|onlepi|bot|one|yit|oneliche|onliche|þo|onely|onelich|on|ġit|allone|alon|onlich|anely|anley|ellis|on~ly|allanly|oonli|botte|onlye|anly|ellys|anen|enelpi|$only|oneli|elless|$but|alane|allane|tah|ġiet |
| early Modern English | only|alone|but|oonly|onely|onelie|yet|meerely|onelye|onlye|meerly|onlie|$onlye|solely|eune|alonly|merely|aloane|singuler|$only|oonelie |
| Modern British English | besides |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $only | " Forasmuch as, my Lorde, " quoth he, " this Indictment is grounded vppon an acte of parliamente directly repugnant to the lawes of god and his holy churche, the supreeme $gouernment of which, or of any parte whereof, may no temporall prince presume by any lawe to take vppon him, as rightfully belonging to the Sea of Roome, a spirituall preheminence by the mouth of our Sauiour hymself, personally present vppon the earth, $only to St Peeter and his successors, Byshopps of the same Sea, by speciall prerogative graunted; It is therefore in lawe amongest Christen men insufficient to charge any Christen man. " [roper-e1-h,93.116] |
| $onlye | This sayinge, as wytnessyth an auctour named Floure of Hystoryes, whiche towchyth in Laten many gestys and dedys done by kynges of Englonde, sayeth y=t= y=e= Frenshemen brynge in y=t=, for to excuse theyr infortune & cowerdyse, by reason wherof they lost not $onlye $all theyr la~de, but also the honour & name of the same. [fabyan-e1-p1,564.158] |
| aloane | and for Confirmation whereof he offer'd not Words aloane, but the Adventure of his Life to goe with them; [perrott-e2-p1,68.145] |
| alone | This is a liuely and perfite waie of teaching of Rewles: where the common waie, vsed in common Scholes, to read the Grammer alone by it selfe, is tedious for the Master, hard for the Scholer, colde and vncumfortable for them bothe. [asch-e1-h,2R.40] |
| alonly | I hard that afore Rafe of Raby tyme ther was that alonly that now is the south isle. [leland-e1-h,76.168] |
| but | and tell her I was last night at S=t= Jeames, and y=t= ther was but a few dancers. [alhatton-e3-h,2,241.14] |
| eune | and thy good desire to see me onc a day: eune all these things springinge from thy dutyfull loue to me: shall make me bethinke me still, which way I may doe thee most good. yea. and all the good I cane: [kpaston-e2-p1,72.60] |
| meerely | And for the second, certaine it is, there is no vexation or anxietie of minde, which resulteth from knowledge otherwise than meerely by accident; [bacon-e2-p1,1,5V.50] |
| meerly | At other times, meerly for diversion, he would go about in odd shapes, in which he acted his part so naturally, that even those who were in the secret, and saw him in these shapes, could perceive nothing by which he might be discovered. [burnetroc-e3-h,28.126] |
| merely | L. C. J. Why, dost thou think she would entertain any one that she had no Knowledge of merely upon thy Message? [lisle-e3-p1,4,110.283] |
| onelie | Yea S. Iohnes did the~ so florish, as Trinitie college, that Princely house now, at the first erectio~, was but Colonia deducta out of S. Ihones, not onelie for their Master, fellowes, and scholers, but also, which is more, for their whole, both order of learning, and discipline of maners: [asch-e1-h,55R.165] |
| onely | To vtter theis my thoughts somwhat more largelie, were somwhat beside my matter, yet not very farre out of the way, bycause it shall wholy tend to the good encoragement and right consideration of learning, which is my full purpose in writing this litle booke: whereby also shall well appeare this sentence to be most trewe, that onely good men, by their gouernment & example, make happie times, in euery degree and state. [asch-e1-h,54R.137] |
| onelye | But yet besydes all my harmes I haue thys more hurt, that the iudgement of many of the common people do not consyder the meryt and desyre of thyngs, but onelye the chaunce of fortune, and doo iudge that onely such thynges be ordeyned of god, that worldelye felycytye or delyte commendeth, which is as much to say: that after the iudgement of the common people yf a man haue welthe he is a good man, and worthy to haue it. And if he hath aduersitie, that he is an euyll man & worthy to haue it, and that God hath forsaken hym. [boethco-e1-p1,23.94] |
| onlie | and neering alongst the shore side for a harbour to ancor in, wee sent our Pinnis in the meane time, to the shore with the Gang onlie and master Elmore to seeke for a conuenient watering place, wee keeping our course till our Pinnis came to the shore side. [coverte-e2-p1,10.141] |
| only | But this was only sayd by one member only, & not seconded by any of y=e= Howse. [aungier-e3-p1,60,A.10] |
| onlye | that is to say, temporal power is such that it extendeth but onlye vnto the bodye. [boethco-e1-p1,45.483] |
| oonelie | Sithens the making of whiche saide Acte the Companie and Felowship of Surgeons of London, mynding oonelie theyre owne lucres, and nothing the profite or ease of the diseased or patient, have sued troubled and vexed divers honest p~sones aswell men as woomen, whome God hathe endued with the knowledge of the nature kinde and operac~on of certeyne herbes rotes and waters, and the using and mynistering of them to suche as been pained with customable diseases, as Womens brestes being sore, a Pyn and the Web in the eye, uncoomes of hand~ scalding~ burning~ sore mouthes the stone strangurye saucelin and morfew, and suche other lyke diseases, and yet the saide p~sones have not takin any thing for theyre peynes and cooninng, but have mynistred the same to the poore people oonelie for neighbourhode and Goddes sake and of pitie and charytie; and it is nowe well knowen that the surgeons admytted wooll doo no cure to any p~sone, but where they shall knowe to be rewarded with a greater soome or rewarde than the cure extendeth unto, [stat-1540-e1-h,3,906.7] |
| oonly | His will was to bee buryed at the ffreres Obseruaunts, bilded in this Citie by the late King of Aragon and quene Elizabeth pro sepulture Regum, wher no man is buryed without lycence of th'Emperor, for th'opteynyng wherof after we sent to know his pleasure, he not oonly gladly gaue lycence but also comaundyd he shuld be buryed within the cyrcuit of the quere, which place is foundyd and reseruyd for buryall oonly of Kings. Whiche thinge he dyd in the honor of your Highnes, and never bifore was grauntyd to no pryvate person. [ambass-e1-p2,3.2,23.14] |
| singuler | " Besides this, the manifold goodnes of the kings highnes himself, that hath bine so many waies my singuler good Lord and gracious soueraigne, that hath so deerely loved and trusted me, even att my $very first cominge into his noble service with the dignity of his honourable pryvy Councell vouchsafing to admit me, and to offices of greate creditt and worshippe most liberally advanced me, and finally with that waighty Roome of his graces highe Chauncelour the like whereof he neuer did to temporall man before next to his owne roiall person the highest officer in this noble realme, so farr aboue my merittes or qualities able and meete therefore, of his incomparable benignity honoured and exalted me, by the space of XX=ti= yeares and more shewing his continewall favour towards me, And vntill at my owne poore suite, it pleased his highnes, geving me licens, with his maiesties favour, to bestowe the residue of my life for the provision of my soule in the service of god, of his especiall goodnes thereof to discharg and vnburthen me most beningly heaped honours continually more and more vppon me: [roper-e1-h,91.110] |
| solely | and shall ever remaine Thine and solely thine Hen: Oxinden [hoxinden-1650-e3-p2,179.208] |
| yet | Then said Iesus vnto them, Yet a litle while am I with you, [authnew-e2-h,7,20J.929] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| alone | The Account of him is given us in an English Book, Translated out of French, the Title of which is, An Examen of the way of Teaching the Latin Tongue to little Children by use alone, Lond. 1669. 12=o=. [anon-1711,7.56] |
| besides | Pr. Coun. Where did you see the Prisoner, besides at Manchester? [townley-1746,38.372] |
| but | Two of its eyes were placed so near together that they seemed but one. [albin-1736,31.842] |
| meerly | For if He approves what is Good; He $can $not, meerly from the Unchangeableness of his Nature, approve what is Evil. [butler-1726,272.334] |
| merely | & as to pitying a young woman merely because she $can $not live in two places at the same time, & at once enjoy the comforts of being married & single, I shall not attempt it, even for Harriet. [austen-180x,177.383] |
| only | All the Modern Languages, as he says, are learn'd to a great Perfection only by Conversation; [anon-1711,7.67] |
| solely | Melancthon regarded the languages solely as means to ends, [bain-1878,360.27] |
| yet | Jesus therefore said, Yet a little while am I with you, [erv-new-1881,7,20J.596] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $but | Of hem Theodorus þe secounde, þeyġ he were pope $but oon monþe, ġit he roos aġenst pope Stevene his doynge, [cmpolych,VI,395.2894] |
| $bute | Lokeđ leoue $sustren þt owwer cheken ne grinde $neauer $bute þe saule fode. ne ouwer eare ne drinke bute þe saule hele. [cmancriw-1,II.58.564] |
| $only | Than the moste party of the knyghtes of the Rounde Table seyde that Balyne dud nat this adventure $all $only by myght but by wycchecrauffte. [cmmalory,48.1587] |
| +get | Al ġet þe feaġeđ hire. hwet se hit eauer beo þurch hwat machte sonre fol lokig awacnin vre lauerd put cleopeđ. [cmancriw-1,II.48.445] |
| +giet | Oft ic habbe beuolen an ođer senne, fram đat ic cuđe speken, ġiet to đese daiġe, đat is mendatium be name, đat is, leasinge, đe all Adames ofspring hafđ be-smiten, đe speken cuđen ođer mihten, wiđ-uten Crist ane, đe is mid rihte icleped sođh, and sæinte Marie, his moder. [cmvices1,9.88] |
| +git | Ġe, and ġif it be cortesye and semely to sey, in þis werk it profiteþ litil or nouġt to þink of þe kyndenes or þe worþines of God, ne on oure Lady, ne on þe seintes or aungelles in heuen, ne ġit on þe ioies in heuen: þat is to say, wiþ a special beholding to hem, as þou woldest bi þat beholding fede and encrees þi purpos. [cmcloud,25.177] |
| +tach | & Nim þer ġeme þt þis uuel of dina com. naut þach of þt $ha $sech sichen emores sune þt ha sunegede wiđ. ach of þt $ha $lette setten echnen on hire. [cmancriw-1,II.45.423] |
| +to | The kyng þo, Corinbatrus, come aġeyne into þis Lande, [cmbrut3,28.817] |
| alane | And when þi hert es haly ordande to þe service of God, and al worldly thoghtes put oute, þan wil þe liste stele by þe alane, to thynk on Criste, and to be in mykel praying. [cmrollep,66.90] |
| allane | Bot to oþer, þat ere fre, and noghte bownden to temperale mynystracyon, ne to spiritualle, I hope þat lyfe contemplatyfe allane, if þay myghte com sothefastly þare-to, were beste and maste spedfull, maste medfull and faire, and maste worthi to þam for to vse and to halde, & noghte for to leue wilfully for nane outwarde werkes of actyfe lyfe, Bot if it ware in gret nede, at gret releuynge & conforthynge of oþer men, ouþer of þaire body or of þaire saule. [cmrolltr,28.596] |
| allanly | Þe toþer gude thewe or vertue es ' hope, ' þat es, a sekyr habydynge of gastely gude, thurghe Goddes gudnes and oure gude dedis, for to com to þat blysse þat neuer mare blynnes, Noghte anely in trayste of Goddes gudnes, ne allanly in trayste of oure gude dedis, Bot in trayste of thaym bathe when þay are bathe Sammen; [cmgaytry,10.134] |
| allone | Or elles, per aventure, the entente of Salomon was this: that, as in sovereyn bounte, he foond no womman- this is to seyn, that ther is no wight that hath sovereyn bountee save God allone, as he hymself recordeth in hys Evaungelie. [cmctmeli,220.C2.139] |
| alon | Ich haue synned to þe alon, [cmearlps,61.2667] |
| alone | Certayn, he alone to whom $he haþ inspired schuch a wil and yġyue power to performe. [cmaelr3,26.13] |
| an | Make bitter man as wif deđ for hire child þe nefde bute hit an & siđ hit biforen hire feorliche astoruen. [cmancriw-1,II.230.3329] |
| ane | for naut ne makeþ hire woh, scraggi, ant unefne bute sunne ane. [cmancriw-1,I.44.30] |
| anely | and thanke þe, þat me, thyne vnworthy seruande, þou hase kepid couerde and vesete in þis nyghte Or in þis day, hale, safe, and wemles vn-to þis tym þou hase made to come, and for all oþer gudes and benefitis þat þou hase geffyn me, anely thurghe þi gudnes and þi pete, þou þat lyffes and regnes endles. [cmedthor,20.107] |
| anen | & cwæđ to þan Hælende, ' La, Drihten, nis þe na gemynde, þt min suster lætt me anen þenigen? [cmkentho,134.11] |
| anes | þe muchele hechnesse þt he heold infullocht under hise honden. þe lauerd of heouene. þt halt up al þe world mid his anes michte. [cmancriw-1,II.125.1609] |
| anley | For all þe creaturs in þe worlde ere made anley for man. [cmedthor,22.157] |
| anly | and that has beene a lernynge to me, that I schulde euermare do so and chese anly hym to my heuen, in wele and in wa. [cmjulnor,56.169] |
| bot | þe dyaþ ne is bot a todelinge of þe zaule: and of þe bodye. [cmayenbi,72.1366] |
| bote | Þis is þilke on þat is not yfounde bote in oon, at oon and wit oon, in whom is noon vnstabilite ne chaungyngge; [cmaelr3,35.269] |
| botte | This lastyd botte a while, [cmjulnor,52.82] |
| but | and al this is but a disceyt. [cmaelr4,2.34] |
| bute | Þe oreisuns, þet ich nabbe bute an imarked, beođ iwriten ouer al, wiđuten þe leste. [cmancriw-1,I.74.291] |
| buten | ant al þet ođer $wiđute þis nis buten $an trichunge ant $an fals gile. [cmancriw-1,I.50.109] |
| buton | þa hi þider comen, đa ne was hit noht buton læsunge. [cmpeterb,51.276] |
| elles | Preyer in it-self propirly is not elles bot a deuoute entent directe vnto God, for getyng of goodes & remowyng of yuelles. [cmcloud,77.334] |
| elless | | & loc nu ġiff Crisstene king | | Birrþ beon rihhtwis & milde, | | & god wiþþ all hiss follc þatt iss | | Inn all hiss kineriche, | | Þatt he ne beo biforenn Godd | | Haldenn & tald forr werrse | | Þann þatt hæþene Kaserrking, | | Þatt draf all ut off lande | | An mahhtiġ king & riche king | | & rihht forr nan þing elless, | | Butt forr þatt he wass modiġ mann | | & grimme wiþþ hiss leode; | [cmorm,I,286.2370] |
| ellis | for lettere .D. ne serueth of nothyng ellis but for to shewe the wher thow shalt bygynne thy reknyng in thy litel cercle |
| ellys | Whan sche was com in-to Ġorke, sche went to an ancres wheche had louyd hir wel er sche went to Ierusalem to han knowlach of hyr gostly encres, also desiryng for mor gostly communicacyon to etyn wyth þe ancres þat day no-thyng ellys but bred & watyr, [cmkempe,119.2745] |
| enelpi | on enelpi luttele hwile mon mei underfon ane wunde on his licome; þet ne mei beon longe hwile hal. [cmlambx1,29.358] |
| on | & hade no mo childerne but here on; [cmbrut3,113.3445] |
| on~ly | This holy & ghostly wisdom was it. y=t= good fad~s euer desyred to haue. y=t= they with lyghte. myghte passe thrugh this worlde in suche astates as thei stode on wythoute errour or offence to god. and fynally theyr supernaturall ende. to whyche ende. y=e= wysdome of the worlde myghte neuer lede the hauer |
| one | He one is |
| oneli | but whanne he was bischop of that ġeer, he prophesiede, that Jhesu was to die for the folc, and not oneli for the folc, but that he schulde gadere in to oon the sones of God that weren scaterid. [cmntest,11,40J.1143] |
| onelich | but þai myġt neuer assenten to haue onelich o kyng, forto bene to him entendaunt: [cmbrut3,95.2893] |
| oneliche | and saide þat he axede noþing wiþ here, but oneliche heir cloþing and oneliche heir body; [cmbrut3,17.517] |
| onely | and þe Moldewerpe shal haue no maner power, saf onely a shipp wherto he may wende; [cmbrut3,76.2293] |
| onlepi | And huanne ich his zuerye be þoġte: ich bere ham ane worþssipe |
| onlich | For hij þouġt to-gidres onlich oġains me, [cmearlps,102.4472] |
| onliche | and þerfor þis Cloten hade no more lande amonges ham þan onliche Cornewaile. [cmbrut3,23.676] |
| only | and þis ġifte is frely yġeue to vs, þat only of his goodnesse beþ ichose þorouġ his grace; [cmaelr3,51.812] |
| onlyche | For alþouġ castete be a special ġift of God, and no-body may be continent of his owne merytis, bote onlyche of þe liberal ġyft of þe grace of God, naþeles almyty God halt hem vnworþy þis ġifte þat nulle not bysylyche trauayle to come þer-to, willyngge and wenyngge forto be chast among delices, continent among delauey festes, to dwellen among nyce wommen and nouġt be tempted, in glotonye and drunkeschipe be ful of stynkynde humours and nouġt be defoyled, to bere leyt of fuir in here bosum and nouġt be brend. [cmaelr3,29.92] |
| onlye | Thus chese I Ihesu for my heuen wham I $saw onlye in payne at that tyme. [cmjulnor,56.166] |
| oonli | Þerfore it is good þanne for to stynte fro multitude of wordis, and þinke oonli in þin herte as esily as þou maist. [cmhilton,8.51] |
| oonly | Al this say I not oonly for the but for other that in tyme comynge mowe atteyne to suche a forme of lyuynge. [cmaelr4,4.104] |
| tah | Ant ich he seiđ fearlac o mi trowđe bluđeliche. nawt tah efter þt hit is. for þt ne mei na tunge tellen. ah efter þt ich mei & con; þer toward ich chulle reodien. [cmsawles,170.70] |
| yet | Oþer huanne me zuereþ zikerliche |
| yit | " And what $seist $tow thanne, " quod sche, " of thilke wrecche that lakketh alle goodes so that no good nys medlyd in his wrecchidnesse, and yit over al his wikkidnesse, for which he is a wrecche, that ther be yit another yvel anexed and knyt to hym- [cmboeth,447.C2.380] |
Period=OE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $ana | nu nolde he $ana $beon $butan he gebrođra hæfde, [coaelhom,+AHom_1:386.200] |
| +aalles | Þu sceoldest witan hwenne þe genoh þuhte, and gyf đu efre to đam becume, þæt þu þonne ofer þæt ne eodest, ac sohtest æalles hwæt, þe les þu anes hwæt woldest $and wylnodest ofer gemet. [cosolilo,Solil_1:15.11.199] |
| +alles | Forđam ic silf nanwyht ælles næbbe; [cosolilo,Solil_1:12.7.140] |
| ana | and hi ana þa hæfdon andgyt embe God, [coaelhom,+AHom_3:51.436] |
| ane | On ælcen deme sceal beon æigđer gea mildheortnysse, gea wraca, for þan þe heora nađer ne mæig beon wel abuten ođren, þe $læs $te on þære mildheortnysse ane forgyfe his heringmannen orsorhnysse to synegien, ođđe eft for þære wraca anre þæs agyltendan mod seo gehwerfed on orwennysse, & se deme þonne fram Gode nane mildheortnysse ne geearneđ, [coalcuin,Alc_[Warn_35]:154.117] |
| butan | Se đe næfđ butan an cealf on geoguđe, ođđe an lamb, he do swa micel to Godes lacum þærfore swa þær to teoþunge gebyrige, þæt is se teođa dæl þæs þe hit wyrđe is. [coaelhom,+AHom_31:103.4180] |
| buten | & for þan heo ne mugen nan þing, for heo ne mugen buten yfel. [coeluc1,Eluc_1_[Warn_45]:100.79] |
| buton | ac he ne þreade swađeah þurh hine sylfne þa git buton þæt Iudeisce cynn, þe he to cumen wæs, and mid þam þe he wunode and fela tacna geworhte. [coaelhom,+AHom_7:76.1099] |
| butun | Þa andswarodun hig, we nabbađ her butun fif hlafas & twegen fixas. [cowsgosp,Mt_[WSCp]:14.17.951] |
| elles | Mid þi þe he naht elles ne onfunde buton þæt he ær geþohte, he cwæđ þa to him silfum: Hwæt dest þu nu, Apolloni? [coapollo,ApT:6.13.87] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | fornean|hwene|neah|wene|huhugu|forneah|fulneah|folneah|ecan|lang|eacan|hwæne|fornæh |
| Middle English | ofte|wel|almoost|a-bowte|nyghe|nygh|almost|wele|aboute|nyh|almest|oft|abowte |
| early Modern English | about|almost|almoste|cleane|scarse|wyde|partly|neere|wholly|near|scarce|aboute|hard|ouer|scant|almoost|nere|mostly|abought|partlie|partely|aboght|allmost|sonne|exceedingly|absolute|abouth|$partely|a-bowt|bowt|unmeasurably|abowt|short|wholely|neare|abowte|wholy|hardlie|excedyng|abowzt |
| Modern British English | partly|$about|almost|over|considerably|nearly|barely|slightly|hardly|fairly|headlong|great|close |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $partely | Thens 4. good miles to Bever, $partely by marsch, $medowe, $and $pasture, $and $corn $grounde. [leland-e1-p1,97.343] |
| aboght | the other is chefe cause why I am soo lothe to repayre to London ward, by cause aboght thys tyme is partly off her dangerus tymes [henry-1510-e1-p2,1.1,126,E.9] |
| abought | Abought Bartilmew tyd I was at Mr. Webs. [forman-diary-e2-p2,31.297] |
| about | Thies yong scholers be chosen commonlie, as yong apples be chosen by children, in a faire garden about S. Iames tyde: [asch-e1-p1,6V.76] |
| aboute | Firste, the Wednysday at nyght in Passyon weke that was y=e= .viij. day of Apryll in the .xxi. yere of the reygne of our soueraygne lord kynge Henry the .vij. the yere of our Lorde God .M.D.vj., aboute .x. of y=e= cloke the same nyght, we shypped at Rye in Sussex, [chaplain-e1-p2,3.5] |
| abouth | This priory stondith not far of from this graunge on the brow of an hille abouth a quarter of a mile from the farther ripe of Frome, [leland-e1-h,139.234] |
| abowt | but abowt noone Capten Ward and I went to the gallion wher we fownd them in a great murmuring for that some thowght the Frances upon this discurtesy wold stay behynd. [madox-e2-h,141.418] |
| a-bowt | And a-bowt iij of the cloke at after-non the $Quen's grace cam rydyng from Westmynster unto yeld-hall with mony lordes, knyghts and lades, and bysshopes and haroldes of armes, and trompeturs blohynge and all the gard in harnes. [machyn-e1-p1,53.71] |
| abowte | Matt Henneker beeing unable and unfitt to serve your tourne, and my wife beeing unwillinge that shee should com home, eyther hither or to her fathers, allthough wishing that shee had beene fitt for your service, and that shee might have continued with you for some yeares, hath provided for her with M=ris= Eppes, who haveing now but one mayede and servant, and desireth to have her as soone as possible may bee, to the end that shee should not lose that service and be unprovided, purposeth to sende for her abowte Satterdaye next, or Mondaye at the furthest; [pettit-e2-h,13.3] |
| abowzt | And thanne abowzt halowmesse begynneth gresse, herbes and flowers to springe, [torkingt-e1-p1,21.330] |
| absolute | but my cosin is absolute of the opinion that my cousin Abrahall shall not recover against me. [knyvett-1620-e2-h,58.88] |
| allmost | and kept Mr Hoby compenie tell allmost diner time: [hoby-e2-h,71.94] |
| almoost | Wheras our Merchaunts Adventurers trading into the countrees of Moscovia, have, at this present, almoost in a redines eight good shippes, fraighted with clothes and other Englishe commodities, to make saile from our port of London toward Sainct Nicholas and other portes of Russia, We lett you witt that for certen consideraco~ns us speciallye moving, We have licenced, and by these presents doe licence the bearers hereof in the name of the sayd marchaunts to cary and transport with them out of this our realme towards the said Sainct Nicholas, and other ports of Russia, the quantetye of one thowsand pound waight in bullion. Wherefore we will and commaund you to suffer the sayd bearer of theis our lettres quietlie to passe by you with the sayd one thousand pound waight of bullion for the purpos aforesayd without any your staie, lett, or molestaco~n, as ye tender our pleasure and will aunswere for the contrarye at your perils. [eliz-1580-e2-p1,3.4,45.4] |
| almost | He came not long after to this I am witness, because my eares heard it to a gentleman's not far from Upton upon Seuerne, in Gloxester-shire, where at the table among many gallants and gentlewomen, almost the state of the country hee was to jest and sing: [armin-e2-p2,39.294] |
| almoste | and to be shorte, disobedience doth ouerflowe the bankes of good order, almoste in euerie place, almoste in euerie degree of man. [asch-e1-p2,15V.128] |
| bowt | The xvij day of Feybruary at bowt mydnyght ther wher serten lude feylous cam unto sant Thomas of Acurs, [machyn-e1-p2,82.378] |
| cleane | moreouer, by this diuision of the signes the whole firmament is deuided into 12. parts by reason of 6. Circles called the circles of position, imagined to passe through the poles of the Zodiaque, and also through y=e= beginning of euery signe, wherby we know vnder what signe euery star is situated though it be cleane out of the Zodiaque as this figure here plainely sheweth, marked with these letters A. B. C. D. [blundev-e2-p1,146R.202] |
| excedyng | Indured a wondred grett Tempest, As well by excedyng wonders blowing of wynde as by contynuall lythynyng. So that the capteyne, and the patron, And all the knyghtys of the Rode, whych war ther to the nowmbyr of viiij, wendyd we shulde a be lost. [torkingt-e1-h,59.346] |
| exceedingly | The truth is shee keepes him exceedingly in awe, and very temperate. [hoxinden-1650-e3-p2,172.84] |
| hard | and a little beyend the same, we found Iohn Harrington dead, and starke naked, whom we buried at another Iland, hard by the maine Iland. [coverte-e2-h,15.81] |
| hardlie | Wheras through most Counties of this Realme Horstealinge is growen so co~mon, as neither in Pastures or Closes nor hardlie in Stables the same are to be in safety from stealinge, whiche ensueth by the redye buyinge of the same, by Horscorsers and others in some open Fayres or Markett~ farr distant from the Owner, and withe suche speede as the Owner $can $not by pursuyte possiblie helpe the same; And sondrie good Ordinaunc~ have heretofore bene made touchinge the manner of sellinge and tolinge of Horses Mares Gilding~ and Coult~ in Fayres and Markett~, whiche have not wrought soe good effecte for the repressinge or avoydinge of Horsestealinge as was expected: Nowe, for a further Remedy in that Behalfe, Be it enacted by the Authoritie of this p~sent Parliament, That noe p~son after Twentie Dayes next after thende of this Session of Parliament, shall in any Fayre or Markett sell gyve exchange or put awaye anye Horse Mare Geldinge Coulte or Fillie, unlesse the Tole taker there, or where noe Tole ys payde the Booke keeper Baylif or Cheef Officer of the same Fayre or Markett, shall and will take upon him p~fecte knowledge of the p~son that soe shall sell or offer to sell give or exchange any Horse Mare Geldinge Coulte or Fillie, and of his true Xp~en Name Surname and place of Dwellinge or Resyancye, and shall enter all the same his knowledge into a Booke there kept for Sale of Horses; [stat-1580-e2-h,4,810.6] |
| mostly | $it $'s from Dunmow to Collchester 22 miles, and mostly clay deep way. [fiennes-e3-h,142.30] |
| near | He was a curate about the city near a year, [burnetcha-e3-h,1.2,157.208] |
| neare | I suppose he designes he shall stay abroad till he bee neare of agge, w=ch= will bee four yeare att least, if nothinge should ocasion a more sudden returne then yet wee can foresee. [montague-e3-p2,1,217.61] |
| neere | This exercise of writing faire, would be practised by all the Schollers thorow the Schoole, at least once every day, for an houre's space or neere; [brinsley-e2-p2,32.127] |
| nere | & nere about y=e= same tyme at Bristowe was taken the Lorde Spencer than Erle of Gloucetyr and there behedyd| and his Hede sent vnto London Brydge| [fabyan-e1-h,170R.C1.80] |
| ofte | & ofte tymes the great estates wyll call gentylmen or yomen to play with them at as great game as they do, [fitzh-e1-p2,104.304] |
| ouer | Ouer against the Ile of Mayo, some eight leagues distance, is an Iland called S. Deago; [coverte-e2-p1,4.39] |
| partely | our young Quene is married into France, where she nowe lyveth as a stranger both to them and us, unable to use the liberty of her crowne, partely by reason of her tender yeares, and partlie for that the French King, her husband, beinge no lesse yonge both in age and judgement then her self, is wholly governed by his mother, and by the Duke of Guise, unckle to the Quene. [hayward-e2-p2,47.180] |
| partlie | your self for doeinge the like before us have thereby not onlie approved our action, but bownd your self in honor to support it, partlie for that we have taken imitacion from you, and partly for that your actions $shall $be iustified by beinge imbraced and followed by others; [hayward-e2-p2,46.174] |
| partly | And on this occasion it will not perchance be Impertinent to add something of what I have observ'd in other Animals, as that there is a sort of Hens that want Rumps; And that not to mention that in several places there is a sort of Crows or Daws that are not Cole-black as ours, but Partly of a Whitish Colour in spight of Porphyries examples of Inseparable Accidents, I have seen a perfectly White Raven, as to Bill as well as Feathers, which I attentively consider'd, for fear of being impos'd upon. [boylecol-e3-p2,162.141] |
| scant | With that shee brought in an olde woman with scant euer a good tooth in her head, [deloney-e2-p1,17.266] |
| scarce | but he wore these out so entirely that scarce any trace of them was left. [burnetcha-e3-p1,1,185.141] |
| scarse | Then philosophye smylynge a lytle thereat, sayd: thou requyrest me to shewe the, the greteste thinge of all thynges that maye be requyred, wherevnto scarse any thinge is left sufficiente to resolue the same. [boethco-e1-h,105.788] |
| short | and by the way in turning a flaw snapt in sunder short in the myds owr mayn topsayl yerd. [madox-e2-p1,103.293] |
| sonne | then I went to supper: after to the lector, and, sonne after that, to bed [hoby-e2-h,76.206] |
| unmeasurably | M. Banester hunting for the votes of the most vain masses with dinner expenses and gifts of worn-out clothing had drawn owt a sheet of paper for to be set on the mayn mast with prayers for morning and evening and sygnes to knoe when they shold be syck which besyde yt was unmeasurably beyond al modesty, the conceyt was also so grosse that yf a mans head had but Aked he wold put them in fear of the frensy, the pestilent fever,| the palsey, the pocks, the plage, the scurby, the bubo and such lyke beastly stuffe, which he browght to me to correct as he sayd, [madox-e2-h,130.185] |
| wel | for as it is said, the roote of al the Cure is y=e= wel purging of the body, whereby Nature is the better enabled to expell and vnburden her selfe of many bad and vnprofitable humours. [clowes-e2-h,9.6] |
| wholely | Six years therfore pass'd over in silence as wholely of such Argument, bring us to relate next the unfortunate end of Kinwulf the West-Saxon; who having laudably reign'd about 31 years, yet suspecting that Kineard Brother of Sigebert the former King, intended to usurp the Crown after his Decease, or revenge his Brothers expulsion, had commanded him into banishment; [milton-e3-p2,X,185.133] |
| wholly | He left the business of the treasury wholly in the hands of his secretary, sir Philip Warwick, who was an honest but a weak man; [burnetcha-e3-h,1.1,171.83] |
| wholy | And as they had $before, on the kings behalf, charged him vprightly to minister indifferent iustice to the people, without corruption or affection, So did he likewise charge them againe, that if they sawe him, at any time, in any thinge, digresse from any parte of his duty in that honorable office, euen as they wold discharge theyr owne duty and fidelitye to god and the kinge, so should they not faile to disclose it to his grace, who otherwise might haue iust occasion to lay his fault wholy to their Charge. [roper-e1-h,40.35] |
| wyde | " For that now thou hast seene the forme of imperfett, & true good, Now I think to shewe the` by what the perfection of this felicitie is made. In which first this I think to be inquyrd of, whither any such good ther be, as thou hast defynd a lyttle afore, among natures woorkes, leste a vayne imagination of thought deceaue us wyde from the truthe of that we talke of. [boethel-e2-h,61.76] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $about | and begg'd I would not be angry: That they would be very cautious, and they did not doubt but they would be back again in $about $an Hour at farthest; [defoe-1719,211.311] |
| about | It was taken in a garden about the middle of April. [albin-1736,5.115] |
| almost | For since Men who know little or nothing of French, Italian, or Spanish, quickly learn any one of these Languages, only by going twice or thrice a Week to a Club, where they are oblig'd to speak it; we may reasonably think that Men wou'd learn Latin after the same Method, and almost with the same Ease [anon-1711,16.162] |
| barely | On the contrary, the original inhabitant who is fond of recalling the place, when he and his family composed all that there was of it, is barely past middle age, [bradley-1905,197.8] |
| close | Adm. Knowles. After the Enemy were running did not Capt. Holmes wear under the Cornwal's Stern, run close up to Leeward of her, spring his Luff, hawll out his Mizen, and stretch off upon her Weather-Bow? [holmes-trial-1749,5.56] |
| considerably | It was considerably past eleven before we were at home, [austen-180x,161.28] |
| fairly | and so, if I have it all fairly off my hands by the end of May I shall think it very tolerable. [carlyle-1835,2,257.55] |
| great | then he is examined upon the tenses promiscuously, and at great length. [chapman-1774,181.157] |
| hard | ' Why, truly the reason is hard at hand. [boethja-1897,95.11] |
| hardly | As to myself, having already told you of sitting over my papers, and struggling with my evil genius there, I have hardly anything more to say that is important. [carlyle-1835,2,256.29] |
| headlong | And so there go they, with clangour and terror, they know not as yet whether running, swimming or flying,- headlong into the New Era. [carlyle-1837,1,152.426] |
| mostly | We talked like old friends, mostly of mountaineering, [benson-190x,135.818] |
| near | its back and belly were near of a bigness; [albin-1736,22.614] |
| nearly | and not long ago, nearly the whole time was taken up in many of our seminaries. [bain-1878,380.309] |
| over | This small Spider was all over black, [albin-1736,8.172] |
| partly | Its $feelers were slender, the legs finely marked, partly black and partly of sad colour: [albin-1736,8.193] |
| scarce | Their Hardship will at least appear in a much stronger Light when compar'd to our later Situation, who with scarce half their Merit succeeded to be Sharers under a Patent upon five times easier Conditions: [cibber-1740,58.299] |
| slightly | Dr. S. Hem! $you $'re pleased to be complimentary, madam- slightly at the expense of veracity, to be sure; [brougham-1861,27.1005] |
| wholly | Violent exercise and games of a robust sort are wholly against the Welsh Nonconformist tradition. [bradley-1905,227.405] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| aboute | Aboute þat tyme Hunarus, prince of Saracenes in Siria bulde a newe temple þat is now in Ierusalem, þere þe Saracenes worschippeþ God and biddeþ here bedes. [cmpolych,VI,87.651] |
| abowte | & on þe larde anoynte it with hony þat it gange ouer þe larde all abowte a nynch. [cmthorn,10.214] |
| a-bowte | Aftyr þe vse of þe cuntre þe Cros was reisyd on Estern Day a-bowte noon-tyme, [cmkempe,231.3790] |
| almest | Thanne sueth the disputing bitwixe Joob and hise freendis, almest til to the ende of the book. [cmpurvey,I,37.1731] |
| almoost | Almoost right in the same wise the phisiciens answerden, save that they seyden a fewe woordes moore: that right as maladies been cured by hir contraries, right so shul men warisshe werre by vengeaunce. [cmctmeli,218.C2.62] |
| almost | And soo at Chyldyrmas-day, almost at nyght, þay come to Canturbury ynto Thomas halle: Syr Raynald Bereson, Syr William Tracy, Syr Rychard Bretane, Syr Hewe Morvyle. [cmmirk,41.1202] |
| nygh | & it is nygh a day iorneye fro Bethanye toward the est to a gret hill where oure lord fasted .xl. dayes. [cmmandev,65.1638] |
| nyghe | And there by a lytyll slad sir Launcelot wounded hym sore nyghe unto the deth. [cmmalory,185.2619] |
| nyh | þat citee was þoo i-closed aboute wiþ newe walles, and i-made nyh suche two as it was raþer. So þat þe castel þat was somtyme by þe water wiþ oute þe walles is now in þe toun wiþ ynne þe walles. [cmpolych,VI,409.3002] |
| oft | And when he may noght bryng þam intill swylk synnes, þe whylk myght gar all men wonder on þam, þat knew þam, he begyles many swa prively þat þai kan noght oft syþ fele þe trap þat has taken þaime. [cmrollep,86.364] |
| ofte | of swich witung is muchel uuel jlumpen ofte siđen [cmancriw-2,II.306.1003] |
| wel | Þet is wel grat vileynie |
| wele | But when þay wern all gone yn good spede as þay wenden, þen send Ioseph aftyr hom men þat sayden þat þay wern wycked men þat aftyr þat hur lord had made hom wele at ġees, had stolen hys cuppe þat he loued most. [cmmirk,99.2689] |
Period=OE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| eacan | Sođlice to eacan minum sare foroft me to gemynde becymđ sumra manna lif, þe mid eallum mode forleton þas andweardan woruld. [cogregdh,GDPref_1_[H]:6.20.41] |
| ecan | & eac me byþ full oft to gemynde becumen & geþeoded to ecan mines sares sumra manna lif, þa þe forleton mid eallum mode þas andweardan worulde. [cogregdc,GDPref_1_[C]:6.20.42] |
| folneah | Sua eac Dauit, đe folneah on eallum đingum Gode licode, sona sua he đa byrđenne næfde sua monegra earfeđa, he wæs mid ofermettum gewundad, [cocura,CP:3.35.20.180] |
| forn+ah | Ymb þæt wearđ þæt mæste gewinn monig gear, ođ hie fornæh mid ealle forslægene & forwordene wæron on ægþere healfe, þæt hie mid nanum þinge ne mehton gesemede weorþan, ær þara Romana wif mid heora cildum iernende wæron gemong đæm gefeohtum, & heora fæderum wæron to fotum feallende, & biddende þæt hie for þara cilda lufan þæs gewinnes sumne ende gedyden. [coorosiu,Or_2:2.39.10.749] |
| forneah | Ond ealle men forneah, đa þe đyses eadygan weres lif cuþon oþþe forehyrdon, ealle hie þæt anmodlice wilnodan þæt hie his word gehyran moston, & his larum fylgean, forđon þe hie sweotollice on him ongeaton Godes gife & his blisse. [coblick,LS_17.1_[MartinMor[BlHom_17]]:219.161.2814] |
| fornean | and þæt attor sona hine swiđe þreade fornean to deađe; [coaelive,+ALS_[Martin]:196.6087] |
| fulneah | swelce þæt is đætte men bugiađ þisse worulde fulneah swilce an prica for þæt ođer. [coboeth,Bo:18.42.12.762] |
| huhugu | Is đæt ealond from đære ilcan cyrican feor ut on garsecgge geseted, huhugu on nigen milum. [cobede,Bede_4:28.360.23.3623] |
| hw+ane | Ond đa hwæne ær his ende com him to Sanctus Antonius se ancra, [comart3,Mart_5_[Kotzor]:Ja10,A.10.73] |
| hwene | & hi swa đæs streames brycge abysgade wæron þæt hi hwene ær æfenne oferfaran ne mihten; [cobede,Bede_1:7.38.10.314] |
| lang | Eac ic ne forswigie, Petrus, þæt, þæt se arwyrþa wer Stephanus se abbod, se forđferde in þissere ilcan byrig naht lang ær þysum, þone þu eac sylfa cuþest full gære, se me sæde, þæt hit gelumpe in Nursia þære mægđe, þæt sum mæssepreost wære þære, þam wæs an cyrice befæsted to healdanne, [cogregdc,GDPref_and_4_[C]:12.275.22.4017] |
| neah | &, neah đon eallum ut agangendum, þæt se dema butan đenunge abad on þære ceastre. [cobede,Bede_1:7.38.10.315] |
| wene | & wene æfter þon wæs þæt areccende [cobede,Bede_1:16.80.10.733] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | |
| Middle English | |
| early Modern English | probably|perhaps|semblably |
| Modern British English | probably |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| perhaps | For Morality, he freely own'd to me, that though he talked of it, as a fine thing, yet this was only because he thought it a decent way of speaking, and that as they went always in Cloaths, though in their Frollicks they would have chosen sometimes to have gone naked, if they had not feared the people: So though some of them found it necessary for humane life to talk of Morality, yet he confessed they cared not for it, further than the reputation of it was necessary for their credit, and affairs: of which he gave me many Instances, as their professing and swearing Friendship, where they hated mortally; their Oaths and Imprecations in their Addresses to Women, which they intended never to make good; the pleasure they took in defaming innocent Persons, and spreading false Reports of some, perhaps in Revenge, because they could not enage them to comply with their ill Designs: The delight they had in making people quarrel; their unjust usage of their Creditors, and putting them off by any deceitful Promise they could invent, that might deliver them from present Importunity. So that in detestation of these Courses he would often break forth into such hard Expressions concerning himself as would be indecent for another to repeat. [burnetroc-e3-h,24.112] |
| probably | and if you raise the magnetic needle to the upper part of the Bar, and apply it as before this will draw the Northern extream, which the other end of the bar expelled; probably because, as $'t $is elsewhere declared, the bar is in tract of time, by the continual action of the Magnetical effluvia of the Tarraqueous Globe, turned into a kind of Magnet, whose lower end becomes the North-pole of it, and the other the Southern. [boyle-e3-p1,9M.66] |
| semblably | If the childe haue a delite in huntyng, what pleasure shall he take of the fable of Aristeus: semblably in the huntynge of Dido and Eneas, whiche is discriued moste elegantly in his boke of Eneidos. [elyot-e1-p2,38.38] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| perhaps | I feel rather languid and solitary- perhaps because I have a cold; [austen-180x,190.679] |
| probably | This is a duty I never curtail, probably because it is a pleasure, though it is a time that is apt to be chosen for meetings, and though it is sometimes a temptation to return to other work. [benson-1908,82.398] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | furđon|forđon|hræđe|huru|furđan|hrađe|furþan|furþon|efne|furđum|eac|full|raþe|rađe|riht|emne|eallunga|ungemet|hraþe|forđen|ryhte|furþum|$rađe|ful|hure|furđun |
| Middle English | ryġt|riht|euer|singulerly|specially|riġt|euen|euene|right|richtes|eauer|richt|$eauer|evere|spacialliche|ryght|specialy|rith|streit|rite|speciali|fast|sekirly|verray|certes|righte|pryncypally|ryghte|reghte|euere|strayt|evyn|verry|strayght|very|fulle|deope|specyally|anan-riht|euyr|euyn|rygth|specyal|ryth|synderlice|forþon|even|streyght|well|streyte|clene|$riht|swiđe|pryncypaly|specyaly|wiss|rihht|specialliche|specialli|principally|ay|enterely|speycyally|eure|forþæn|aure |
| early Modern English | just|even|especially|marveilous|specialli|fast|quite|speciallie|namelie|euen|oft|directly|chiefely|eue~|ever|perfectly|right|directlie|iust|diametrally|ryghte|ryght|euin|deep|chiefly|very|strait|particularly|directely|chieflie|specyallye|sound|verie|especiallie|straight|straite|sodainely|dyrectlie|clene|excellent|especialy|speciallye|streyght|soone|specyally|shortly|juste|clean|streight|strayght|straught|exactly|eve~|esspetiallye|$espeatially|utterly|flat|$very|welle|espetially|ful|spetiall|espetialy|especyall|euyn|eene|e'ne|ee'ne|eev'n|espeshallie|verye|faste|full|perticularly|iuste|righte|cheifely|vast|streighte|and|evyn|especiallye|streght|een|chiefe|evyne|e'en|meanly|rygth|eue=r= |
| Modern British English | directly|strait|quite|exactly|altogether|scarcely|purely|entirely|still|exclusively|simply|absolutely|precisely|surely|infinitely|plainly|apparently|clear|essentially|certainly|notably|principally|mainly |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $espeatially | All thy commands I shall most religiously obaye, $espeatially that concerninge Whimme. [knyvett-1630-e2-p2,90.140] |
| $very | $I $sawe $by $certaine $miles $or $I $cam $to $Dancaster $the $very $mayne $crest $of $Wathelynge $strete. [leland-e1-p1,88.231] |
| and | Serj. The writing of your Letters to the Queen's Majesty, wherein you advertised against the Scotish Queen, and though the same were written after your Conference with Ledington and the Bishop of Rosse, is no proof but that you dealt partially for the Scotish Queen; [thoward2-e2-p1,1,92.348] |
| cheifely | In all humble manner shew unto Your most Excellent Majestie Your Majestyes most dutyfull and loyall Subjects the Lord~ and Commons in Parliament assembled That the Horrid and Execrable Murder of Your Majestyes Royall Father our late most Gratious Soveraigne Charles the First of ever blessed and glorious memory hath beene committed by a party of wretched men desperately wicked and hardened in their impietie, who haveing first plotted and contrived the ruine and distruction of this excellent Monarchy, and with it of the true Reformed Protestant Religion which had beene soe long protected by it and flourished under it, found it necessary in order to $the carrying on of their pernitious and traiterous designes to throw downe all the Bulwarks and Fences of Law, and to subvert the very being and constitution of Parliament that soe they might at last make their way open for any further attempts upon the Sacred person of his Majestie himselfe, And that for the more easy effecting thereof they did first seduce some part of the then Army into a compliance and then kepte the rest in subjection to them partly for hopes of preferment and cheifely for feare of looseing their imployments and arreares untill by these and other more odious arts and devices they had fully strengthened themselves both in power and faction, which being done they did declare against all manner of Treaties with the person of the King even then while a Treaty by advice of both Houses of Parliament was in being remonstrate against the Houses of Parliament for such proceedings, seize upon His Royall person while the Commissioners were returned to the House of Parliament with his Answere, and when his concession had beene voted a ground for peace, seize upon the House of Commons seclude and imprison some Members force out others and there being left but a small remnant of their owne Creatures not a tenth part of the whole did seeke to shelter themselves by this weake pretence under the name and authoritie of a Parliament, and in that name laboured to prosecute what was yet behinde and unfinished of their long intended Treason and Conspiricie, [stat-1660-e3-p2,5,288.14] |
| chiefe | M. Mery. Sweete mistresse where as I loue you nothing at all, Regarding your substance and richesse chiefe of all, For your personage, beautie, demeanour and wit, I commende me vnto you neuer a whit. [udall-e1-h,L.1077.403] |
| chiefely | This kinde of degenerate learning did chiefely raigne amongst the Schoole men, who hauing sharpe and stronge wits, and aboundance of leasure, and smal varietie of reading; but their wits being shut vp in the Cels of a few Authors chiefely Aristotle their Dictator as their persons were shut vp in the Cells of Monasteries and Colledges, and knowing little Historie, either of Nature or time, did out of no great quantitie of matter, and infinite agitation of wit, spin out vnto vs those laborious webbes of Learning which are extant in their Bookes. [bacon-e2-h,1,20R.46] |
| chieflie | and therefore out of meere malice, and chieflie by the instigation of Francis Driuer his mate, they thus murdered an innocent man, who thought them no harme, nor suspected any such danger. [coverte-e2-p1,21.182] |
| chiefly | A third Hypothesis there is, which was devised by the Acute Cartesius, who dislikes the Explications of others, chiefly because he thinks them not applicable to Glass, which he supposes unfit to send forth Effluvia, and which is yet an Electrical body; and therefore attempts to account for Electrical Attractions by the intervention of certain particles, shap'd almost like small pieces of Ribbond, which he supposes to be form'd of this subtile matter harbour'd in the pores or crevises of Glass. [boyle-e3-p1,5E.11] |
| clean | and the pointes of the shers wente clean throughe the dore, [forman-e2-h,10.216] |
| clene | or, if ye do nat, strike me clene out of the booke that ye wrate. [elyot-e1-h,151.132] |
| deep | And that thou mayst know that thy Sayings have sunk deep into my Understanding, I say, I know that that which one of these for they are all one can truly perform is, without doubt, the chief Good and true Happiness. [boethpr-e3-h,128.72] |
| diametrally | & note that euery time that she is at the ful, she is opposite to the Sun, and yet the earth is not at euery such full diametrally betwixt her and the sun, [blundev-e2-p1,149V.293] |
| directely | and the sayde yle Cirigo is directely ayenst the poynt of Capo Maleo in Morrea, [chaplain-e1-p2,13.200] |
| directlie | and therfore this circle in Greeke is called Horizon, and in Latine Finitor, that is to say, that which determineth, limitteth or boundeth the sight, the Poles of which circle are imagined to be two points in the firmament, whereof the one standeth right ouer your heade, called in Arabick Zenith: and the other directlie vnder your feete, called in the same tongue Nadir, that is to say the pointe opposite, [blundev-e2-h,152R.113] |
| directly | And Eleazar the Priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinckle of her blood directly before the Tabernacle of the Congregation seuen times. [authold-e2-p1,19,1N.1228] |
| dyrectlie | and if the K. should thincke fitte to graunte tollerations to p~ticuler p~sons that by those lycenses he should raise a great p~fitt to himself This was receiued for so plausible as an edict was p~pared to passe for the same, uppon knoweledge whereof I addressed myself to the Kinge, and p~ticulerly to Monsr de Villeroy, Monsr de Bellieure, Monsr de Rhosny, Monsr de Maisse, and Monsr d Incaruille whome the K: doth spatiallie use in these affaires, and prayed them to consider duelie of whatt importance the said matter is wch under a specius p~text tendeth to the great offence of their neighbors, & allyes, and spetialie of her matie, for excluding the trade of her subiectes dyrectlie against the antient treaties of Confederacie betweene the twoe Crownes, and that it is a veerie unthanckefull requytall of her maties benefittes and good offices towardes them wch deserued rather imunities for her subiectes then to p~iudice them at this tyme that her matie is incommodated by the burthen of the warre of Spayne for others interest as they knowe [edmondes-e2-p1,397.7] |
| een | R. Royster. That was een to me and none other by the Masse. [udall-e1-h,L.364.337] |
| e'en | $I $'ll e'en in there, and attack her just when she comes to her Prayers, [vanbr-e3-p1,68.766] |
| eene | and planted there To arrest the dead Corps of poore Calues and Sheepe, Like rauenous Creditors, that will not suffer The Bodyes of their poore departed Debtors To goe $to $th' $graue, but eene in Death to vex And stay the Corps, with Billes of Middlesex, [middlet-e2-h,21.518] |
| ee'ne | All. Looke how they haue layd them, Ee'ne as they lye themselues, with their Heeles vp, How they haue shufflled vp the Rushes too Dauy With their short figging little shittle-corke-heels, [middlet-e2-p1,38.536] |
| eev'n | But Edwin, as with more deliberation he undertook, and with more sincerity retain'd the Christian profession, so also in power and extent of dominion far exceeded all before him; subdueing all, saith Beda, English or British, eev'n to the Iles, then call'd Mevanian, Anglesey, and Man; [milton-e3-p1,X,153.35] |
| e'ne | my Masters things were euer fit for you Sir, e'ne to a Haire you know. [middlet-e2-h,26.684] |
| especiallie | In the daies of King Henery the eight that most noble and victorious Prince, in the beginning of his reigne, Iohn Winchcomb, a broad cloth Weauer, dwelt in Newberie, a towne in Barkshire: who for that he was a man of a merry disposition, and honest conuersation, was wondrous wel-beloued of Rich and Poore, especiallie because in euery place where hee came, hee would spend his money with the best, and was not at any time found a churle of his purse. Wherefore beeing so good a companion, he was called of old and young Iack of Newbery: a man so generally well knowne in all his countrey for his good fellowship, that hee could goe in no place but hee found acquaintance; by meanes whereof Iack could no sooner get a Crowne, but straight hee found meanes to spend it: [deloney-e2-p1,5.7] |
| especially | It hapned that the Lord Shandoye's players came to towne and played there; which Jack not a little loved, especially the clowne, whom he would embrace with a joyful spirit, and call him Grumball, [armin-e2-p2,37.247] |
| especiallye | It is good to for succour vnto this helping medicine, which driueth away the euill in the beginning of the Pestilence, especiallye if thou menge withall some part of Tamariske. [turner-e1-p2,F5R.125] |
| especialy | It was believed that they both, especialy the Princesse, would have shewed some seeming reluctancy at least, of assuming her Fathers Crowne & made some Apologie, testifying her regret, that he should by his misgovernment necessitat the Nation to so extraordinary a proceeding, which would have shewed very handsomly to the world, and according to the Character $given of her piety &c & consonant to her husbands first Declaration, that there was no intention of Deposing the King, but of Succoring the Nation; [evelyn-e3-h,902.129] |
| especyall | & seyd y=t= he must vse to ete metis y=t= be light of dygestyon as small byrdys| as sparous or swallous & especyall y=t= byrd y=t= ys callyd a wagtale whose fleshe ys meruelouse lyght of dygestyo~ because that byrd ys euer mouyng & styryng. [merrytal-e1-h,19.7] |
| espeshallie | and truely I find his preaching, w=ch= I never heard till this time at Leez, and his conversation, may very reasonably deserve a good one, espeshallie if he performes his dutty to my son abroad, w=ch= I hope he will. [montague-e3-p2,1,218.69] |
| espetially | Then I considerd that goeing to stoole was the effect of certaine motions of the body espetially of the peristaltique motion of the guts. [locke-e3-h,46.30] |
| espetialy | After dynner by reason of dyvers complaynts, espetialy the fylching of gowns, the Capten and master cawled us al before them, meanyng to make serch for things missing. [madox-e2-p1,105.334] |
| esspetiallye | for I valew the losse of a freind aboue all fortune in the worlde, esspetiallye such a freind as his like is not to be founde. [knyvett-1620-e2-p1,70.275] |
| eue~ | and such is their methode, that rests not so much vppon euidence of truth prooued by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples; as vpon particular confutations and solutions of euerie scruple, cauillation & obiection: breeding for the most part one questio~ as fast as it solueth another; eue~ as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest: so that the Fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a liuely Image of this kinde of Philosophie or knowledge, which was transformed into a comely Virgine for the vpper parts; but then, Candida succinctam, latrantibus inguina monstris: [bacon-e2-h,1,20V.56] |
| eue=r= | And eue=r= as firish red wines, seeing that they are hote of nature, by and by fill the head, euen so those wines that are thin and waterish, and gently binding, are not onlye vnhurtfull vnto the head, but also sometime they take away those small head aches which come of humors gathered togither in the stomach. [turner-e1-p1,C4R.61] |
| euen | And yet, though he were a Papist, if any yong man, geuen to new learning as they termed it went beyond his fellowes, in witte, labor, and towardnes, euen the same, neyther lacked, open praise to encorage him, nor priuate exhibition to mainteyne hym, as worthy Syr I. Cheke, if he were aliue would beare good witnes [asch-e1-h,54V.149] |
| euer | With that shee brought in an olde woman with scant euer a good tooth in her head, [deloney-e2-p1,17.266] |
| euin | " This euin to a blinde man is playne, " quoth I, [boethel-e2-h,59.57] |
| euyn | & sayd thus. By my trouth neybors because ye stryue for dryuyng ouer the brydge those shepe which be not yet bought nor wot not wher they be| me thynkyth therfore there is euyn as mych wyt in your heddys as there is mele in my sak. [merrytal-e1-p1,46.343] |
| eve~ | but God, who is rich in mercy, through his great loue, wherewith he loued me, eve~ when I was dead, hath quickned me in Christ. [hooker-a-e2-p2,21.31] |
| even | And he declared unto you his couenant, which he commanded you to performe, even ten co~mandements, [authold-e2-p2,4,1D.379] |
| ever | Trefry, who was naturally amorous, and lov'd to talk of love as well as any body, proceeded to tell him, they had the most charming black that ever was beheld on their plantation, about fifteen or sixteen years old, as he guess'd; that for his part he had done nothing but sigh for her ever since she came; and that all the white beauties he had seen, never charm'd him so absolutely as this fine creature had done; and that no man, of any nation, ever beheld her that did not fall in love with her; and that she had all the slaves perpetually at her feet; and the whole country resounded with the fame of Clemene, [behn-e3-h,188.133] |
| evyn | And vpon the ryht hande of the same, evyn with ine the seyd low Door, ys the very holy Sepulcre of our lord cov with a mervyll stone the lenght wher of ys viij foote. [torkingt-e1-p1,40.407] |
| evyne | And now I thynke it goode a litle to dygrese frome my matter concernynge my impresonmentt and my delyveraunce; and to note the greate mercy off God showed unto his sarvantes in thatt greate parsecusyone in quene Mary's tyme; howe myghtelie and $how many wayes he presarved souche as dide feare hym, evyne as he presarved Danyelle, Jeremy, Paulle, and many in the olde tyme. [underhill-e1-p2,149.204] |
| exactly | they likewise, some of them retain'd all along the surface of them very pretty kind of sutures, such as are observ'd in the skulls of several kinds of living creatures, which sutures were most curiously shap'd in the manner of leaves, and every one of them in the same Shell, exactly one like another, which I was able to discover plainly enough with my naked eye, but more perfectly and distinctly with my Microscope; [hooke-e3-p1,110.157] |
| excellent | For in his bokes be contained, and moste perfectly expressed, nat only the documentes marciall and discipline of armes, but also incomparable wisedomes, and instructions for politike gouernaunce of people: with the worthy commendation and laude of noble princis: where with the reders shall be so all inflamed, that they most feruently shall desire and coueite, by the imitation of their venues, to acquire semblable glorie. For the whiche occasion, Aristotel, moost sharpest witted and excellent lerned Philosopher, as sone as he had receiued Alexander from kynge Philip his father, he before any other thynge taught hym the moost noble warkes of Homere: wherin Alexander founde suche swetenes and frute, that euer after he had Homere nat onely with hym in all his iournayes, but also laide hym under his pillowe whan he went to reste: [elyot-e1-p1,37.85] |
| fast | and when hee had done, and might tell his griefe, the constable was gone to carry home Leonard to his maister, who, not at home, hee was enforced to stay supper-time, where hee told the gentleman the jest, who was very merrie to heare the story, contented the officer, and bad him set the fellow at liberty, who, betimes in the morning, was found fast asleepe in the stocks. [armin-e2-p2,30.50] |
| faste | and soudaynly he fell faste aslepe as he sate at the borde. [mowntayne-e1-p1,188.239] |
| flat | and risith in a medow plot not far above the est end of the cathedrale chirch, first renning flat west and entering into Coscumb water sumwhat by south. [leland-e1-h,144.356] |
| ful | but when we cold not the wynd being ful west we turned to Dartmowth [madox-e2-h,136.327] |
| full | We were full in discourse of the sad state of our times. And the horrid shame brought on the King's service by the just clamours of the poor seamen. And that we must be undone in a little time. [pepys-e3-h,7,416.163] |
| iust | And here note that if the Arke from Aries to the giuen pointe, doe containe iust 90. degrees, the right ascention thereof is also 90. degrees, [blundev-e2-p1,54V.103] |
| iuste | And if it be parted iuste by the centre as you see in F. then is it called a semicircle, or halfe compasse. [record-e1-h,1.B1V.14] |
| just | The post served me just as it did y=r= Losp. [anhatton-e3-h,2,211.4] |
| juste | The boy beinge but a xj. yers old juste at the death of his father, yet having reasonable wit and discretion, and being nymber sprited and apte to any thinge, seeynge the hatred of his mother and of the reste of his brethren and sisters towardes him, and that he could not followe his bocke nor be at quiete, he put himself an apprentice to on Mathewe Comins of Sarum at 14 yers, which useth many occupations. [forman-e2-h,6.92] |
| marveilous | but for no thing that all they cold doo, the fever could be remedyed, nor yet mean found to make hym slepe, or sleke his perpetuall and ardent thurst; wher vpon he made hym mete to God, and receyvyd all the sacramentis of holy churche, and the xx=th= day of this monyth whiche was Mary Magdalens day dipartyd owte of this transitory lyf: of whom your Highnes hath a marveilous great losse, seing the great wisdom and experience that he had in all your affayres, and how at this tyme he myght here so evil haue been lakkyd, seing the greate weight of your affayres that we now haue in hande. [ambass-e1-p2,3.2,22.7] |
| meanly | A Corde or Tendon is a consimple or official member, compounde and spermatike, synowy, strong, and tough, meanly betweene hardenes and softnes, and meanely sensible and flexible, and in complexion colde and dry. [vicary-e1-p1,20.127] |
| namelie | And to saie all in shorte, though I lacke Authoritie to giue counsell, yet I lacke not good will to wisshe, that the yougthe in England, speciallie Ientlemen, and namelie nobilitie, shold be by good bringing vp, so grounded in iudgement of learninge, so founded in loue of honestie, as, whan they shold be called forthe to the execution of great affaires, in seruice of their Prince and contrie, they might be hable, to vse and to order, all experiences, were they good were they bad, and that, according to the square, rule, and line, of wisdom learning and vertue. [asch-e1-h,19R.100] |
| oft | for Iesus oft times resorted thither with his disciples. [authnew-e2-p1,18,1J.641] |
| particularly | and he believed the king knew of his employment, particularly that at Brussels: [burnetcha-e3-p2,2,178.57] |
| perfectly | and this promise he desired me to know was given perfectly in complaisance to me, in whom he had an intire confidence. [behn-e3-h,193.237] |
| perticularly | and she denied that the fellow was of her acquaintance; when it was pretty to see how the little boys did presently fall upon her, and ask her how she durst say so, when she was always with them when they met at her house, and perticularly when she came in in her smock before a dozen of them- at which the court laughed and put the woman away. [pepys-e3-p2,8,321.24] |
| quite | and though I bee not altogether pleased, yet am I not quite past patience: [armin-e2-p2,34.170] |
| right | You haue then to vnderstand that the tables of Monte Regio printed in Folio, are contained in 18. Pages, and euery Page containeth eleauen partitions, called collums, whereof the first on the left hand containeth 60. minutes, which are to be counted from head to foote, as they stand in order one right under another in seuerall places, proceeding from 1. to 60. [blundev-e2-h,50R.52] |
| righte | and with the other foote drawe an arche line righte ouer the pricke, as you can ayme it: [record-e1-h,1.C3R.205] |
| ryght | And farthermore euery thyng, kepethe that thynge, that is agreyng and according to it, ryght as the thynges that be contrarye, corrupteth and dystroyeth it. [boethco-e1-h,80.503] |
| ryghte | for they all be knytt to gether with ryghte stronge reasons. [boethco-e1-h,78.403] |
| rygth | To the rygth honorable and my synguler goode frende Master Secretary. [wolsey-e1-p1,1.2,6.26] |
| shortly | and it commeth moste commonly, whan great wete commeth shortly after the corne is sowen. [fitzh-e1-p2,30.129] |
| sodainely | But presently mee thought there came one to me crowned like a Queene, who tould mee my heart would die, except in time I got some of that sleeping hogges grease to heale the wounds thereof. Whereupon I ranne in all haste to the Hog with my heart bleeding in my hand, who mee thought grunted at mee in most churlish sort, and vanisht out of my sight. Whereupon comming straite home, me thought I found this Hog rustling among my Loomes, wherewith I presently awaked, sodainely after midnight, beeing all in a sweate and very ill: [deloney-e2-p1,13.158] |
| soone | In this yere, soone after Candelmasse, the foresayd lorde of Castyle, trustyng to wyn~e a lyke enterpryse as in the yere passed he had done, he beynge acco~panyed with a stronge nauy of Frenshemen and Brytons, was encountred with the Englysshe floot, within .ii. myles of Dertmouth, at a place called Blakpooll, where, after longe and cruell fyght, the sayd lorde was slayne, with the more partye of y=e= people, and dyuers of his shyppes taken, as wytnesseth the Englysshe Cronycle, with dyuers other Englysshe auctours. [fabyan-e1-p2,571.23] |
| sound | and with that being scant able to hold open her eyes, shee began to nodde and to spill the wine out of the glasse: which they perceiuing let her alone, going out of the cellar till shee was sound asleepe, [deloney-e2-h,80.349] |
| specialli | And as vnto the secund way, he thought also that for money oonly he shuld not be delivered, but that he must restore to th'Emperor suche as he deteynith of his: and also content and satisfie his confederatis. Wherupon he saide that they fell to treat of restitution to bee made to th'Emperour first: and that albeit th'Emperor might demaunde Languedoc and Prouynce, with many other pecis, yet he said th'Emperor wold only goe to matier freshe in memory, and werin he sufferyd manifest wrong, as vnto the Duchie of Burgoyn and restitution of the morgage of Picardie, or the money lent on the same, with extincting of reasort of pecis to be restoryd. Opon all whiche matiers, and specialli of the right of the Duchie of Burgon the Chanceler shewid vs at length what he had purposed and what was answerid by the President. Whiche reasons and argumentis perticulerly here we $shall $not nede to reherse seing they conteyn matiers in Lawe, and be the self same that were purposyd at Caleis by the Chauncelors of bothe Princis before my Lorde Legate your Lieutenaunt at that time, and wherof my said Lord Legate hath a boke alredy drawn by th'Emperor's chauncelor conteinyug all those arguments with many moo yet not purposyd. [ambass-e1-p2,3.2,25.19] |
| speciallie | And to saie all in shorte, though I lacke Authoritie to giue counsell, yet I lacke not good will to wisshe, that the yougthe in England, speciallie Ientlemen, and namelie nobilitie, shold be by good bringing vp, so grounded in iudgement of learninge, so founded in loue of honestie, as, whan they shold be called forthe to the execution of great affaires, in seruice of their Prince and contrie, they might be hable, to vse and to order, all experiences, were they good were they bad, and that, according to the square, rule, and line, of wisdom learning and vertue. [asch-e1-h,19R.100] |
| specially | but teach them thy sonnes, & thy sonnes sonnes: Specially, the day that thou stoodst before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said vnto mee, Gather me the people together, [authold-e2-p2,4,1D.367] |
| speciallye | and the .xii. daye of Marche folowynge he was w=t= great solempnyte brought thoroughe the Cytie of London to Paulys| & there layed open visaged agayn to the ende that his Dethe myght be manyfestlye knowen| whiche was doutfull to many one| and speciallye to suche as oughte to hym fauoure| [fabyan-e1-h,170R.C2.95] |
| specyally | I trust there is no true crysten man but that he wyll be moued with the testimonye of all these. specyally whan they be grounded of so playne & euydent a fygure of the olde lawe. and of so clere a lyght of the holy gospels. [fisher-e1-h,1,321.125] |
| specyallye | I do rekyn your Grace right happye that ye be now at libertye to serve God, and lern to experyment how ye shall banyshe and exyle the vayn desyrys of this unstabyll world; which undowtydlye doth nothing ells but allure every person therin, and specyallye such as our Lorde hath most indewyd with his gyfts, to desyre the affecsyons of theyr mynd to be satysfyed; in studying and sekyng wherof, most persons, besyd the grete tramaylls and afliyccsyons that men suffer daylye, wherof most persons bene dryvyn to extreme repentance; and serching for plesure and ffelycyte fynd nothing but trowbyll, sorow, anxyete, and adversyte. Wherfor, in myn oppynyon, your Grace being as ye ar, I supposse ye woolde not be as ye werre, to wyn a hundereth tymys as moche as ye were possessyd off. [cromwell-e1-p2,3.2,186.8] |
| spetiall | He browght also some ropes wherof dyvers complayned that we did want but spetiall Ferdinando. [madox-e2-h,138.350] |
| straight | But againe, when hee considered her yeares to bee vnfitting to his youth, and that she that sometime had beene his Dame, would perhaps disdaine to be gouerned by him that had beene her poore seruant, that it would proue but a badde bargaine, doubting many inconueniences that might growe thereby, hee therefore resolued to be silent rather than to proceed further: wherefore hee got him straight to bed, [deloney-e2-p1,12.141] |
| strait | Cleane it strait up the backe; first with a cleft, made with your pen-knife: after with another quill put into it, [brinsley-e2-p2,29.81] |
| straite | But presently mee thought there came one to me crowned like a Queene, who tould mee my heart would die, except in time I got some of that sleeping hogges grease to heale the wounds thereof. Whereupon I ranne in all haste to the Hog with my heart bleeding in my hand, who mee thought grunted at mee in most churlish sort, and vanisht out of my sight. Whereupon comming straite home, me thought I found this Hog rustling among my Loomes, wherewith I presently awaked, sodainely after midnight, beeing all in a sweate and very ill: [deloney-e2-p1,13.158] |
| straught | and, because I was not well, I went straught to bed [hoby-e2-p2,84.141] |
| strayght | " Then I departed strayght to the towne, [harman-e1-h,69.255] |
| streght | And Eleazar y=e= preast shall take of hir bloude vppon his fynger, and sprynkle it streght towarde the tabernacle of witnesse .vii. tymes [tyndold-e1-p1,19,1N.1170] |
| streight | but rowed streight to Bacein; [fryer-e3-h,I,190.96] |
| streighte | but his minde being altered, hee bare the letters streighte to his Father the Duke of Yorke, who caused a number of his men forthwith to carrye his son to the King, where he shewing his letters, the King woulde not beleeue them: [stow-e2-h,545.24] |
| streyght | This dede was kepte secrete tyll the retourne of hyr husbonde, at whose home commynge, she with lamentable countenau~ce shewyd tyll hyr husbonde all the demeanure of the sayd Iaquet. After which complaynt by hyr husbonde well vnderstondyn, he yode streyght vnto the duke of Alenson, requyrynge hym to do correccyon vpon the auoutrer, or ellys that he myght trye with hym in the felde by fortune of batayll: wherof nother y=e= duke wolde grau~t, [fabyan-e1-p1,557.7] |
| utterly | when once you discover this, because $it $'s utterly in vain to make ground and trees, of different genius agree together you must make it your business by degrees, to change your Trees, till you have left none against which your soil beareth such an implacable hatred, and furnish it with such as will flourish, and be fruitful. [langf-e3-h,115.178] |
| vast | Lose that is vast in your handes, ye neede not [stevenso-e1-h,10.65] |
| verie | carrying a verie stately gate in the street, it draue him into greater liking of her, beeing the more vrged to vtter his minde. [deloney-e2-h,85.480] |
| very | Phil. By that little which you have mentioned, I take it that I have seene the very same: [brinsley-e2-p1,6.67] |
| verye | for I ham the verye same man that nowe talkethe with yow. [mowntayne-e1-h,213.349] |
| welle | and a great stone causey is made to cum welle onto it. [leland-e1-p2,118.307] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| absolutely | and yet there was I, looking out upon it absolutely without emotion; rather pleased to know it all so well, as a bird might fly over well-known fields, but neither desiring to be back, nor regretting the past, nor wishing anything otherwise- with no feeling of tenderness or sorrow, only glad to be out of it all. [benson-190x,138.878] |
| altogether | they appeared altogether of a different character; [haydon-1808,1,10.160] |
| apparently | Having communicated this piece of information, apparently more for the purpose of discharging his bosom of an important fact, than with any specific view of enlightening Mr Pickwick, the guide, having at length reached another gallery, led the way into a small passage at the extreme end; [dickens-1837,545.36] |
| certainly | but the war still was carried on, certainly with the most exemplary care on the part of the septuagenarian Prime Minister. [trollope-1882,167.179] |
| chiefly | $'T $is true, the 2 last learn'd Latin chiefly from Books. [anon-1711,14.148] |
| clear | At the top of the slit, loosen the bark with the flat haft of your penknife, clear to the wood, [grafting-1780,10.74] |
| directly | At 7 in the evening we were alarmed with a fire in the fore-sail room, which was directly over the magazine. [cook-1776,20.260] |
| entirely | he made a point of ordering toasted cheese for supper entirely on my account. [austen-180x,165.111] |
| especially | I shall be very glad to hear from you, that we may know how you all are, especially the two Edwards. [austen-180x,166.129] |
| essentially | It is pretty certain, however, that these rites, like those of the Bona Dea, are essentially of a Phallic nature; [reade-1863,208.114] |
| even | Nay, even those Common Sea-Men, who can neither Write nor Read, by hearing the Natives Discourse, arrive by degrees to a considerable Knowledge in their Languages. [anon-1711,9.94] |
| ever | My Aunt talks much of the violent colds prevailing in Bath, from which my Uncle has suffered ever since their return, [austen-180x,182.504] |
| exactly | But why may not we learn them exactly as they occur in the mother tongue? [bain-1878,374.226] |
| exclusively | I find from an inspection of my medical-case book, that two hundred and sixty-nine persons exclusively of a considerable number which were of a mixed and doubtful nature labouring under severe chronic rheumatism, have been admitted under my care as in-patients of the Infirmary. [bardsley-1807,4.26] |
| fast | Now Thieves and Ruffians are awake, and honest Watchmen fast asleep: [fielding-1749,3,5.331] |
| full | Looks full in her face. [goldsmith-1773,59.947] |
| infinitely | and may be brought up to that Being, who is infinitely more than an adequate Object of all those Affections; whom we are commanded to Love with all our Heart, with all our Soul, and with all our Mind. [butler-1726,258.212] |
| just | Even the delicate associations with words can be expounded through our own language; just as they must be to the pupil who is studying the original. [bain-1878,366.96] |
| mainly | The various European languages appear to us obviously connected, mainly because we hold the Latin thread which runs through them; [whewell-1837,38.373] |
| notably | In other parts of the kingdom, notably Worthing and the Channel Islands principally Guernsey, large areas of ground have also been covered with glass. [weathers-1913,1,7.149] |
| particularly | Four years ago he was seized with an attack of acute rheumatism, which left him so debilitated and crippled, particularly in the joints of the lower extremities, as to be unable ever since to follow his employment. [bardsley-1807,24.204] |
| perfectly | I hope you have made yourself perfectly at home since your arrival here? [collier-1835,12.324] |
| plainly | At the Maison de Saint-Lazare, Lazar-House once, now a Correction-House with Priests, there was no trace of arms; but, on the other hand, corn, plainly to a culpable extent. [carlyle-1837,1,154.469] |
| precisely | ' Have we not shown that those things which most men desire are not true and perfect good precisely for this cause- that they differ severally one from another, and, seeing that one is wanting to another, they $can $not bestow full and absolute good; but that they become the true good when they are gathered, as it were, into one form and agency, so that that which is independence is likewise power, reverence, renown, and pleasant delight, and unless they are all one and the same, they have no claim to be counted among things desirable? ' [boethja-1897,110.190] |
| principally | In other parts of the kingdom, notably Worthing and the Channel Islands principally Guernsey, large areas of ground have also been covered with glass. [weathers-1913,1,7.149] |
| purely | I suppose no Person will be so weak as to imagine that we learn the Modern Languages by Conversation, purely because they are Modern; [anon-1711,10.103] |
| quite | and below that, next the tail, there were small streaks or lines of a light colour quite cross the lower part of the belly; the under side of the belly light and finely speckled with dark colour: Its feelers slender. [albin-1736,29.805] |
| right | Took a train to Hayward's Heath, and then by Burgess Hill right out to the west. [benson-190x,124.592] |
| scarcely | and continue there 'till they are Sixteen or Seventeen before they are sent to the Universities: So that about Eight or Nine Years are generally spent in Learning, scarcely any thing but Latin and Greek. [anon-1711,4.11] |
| shortly | Before supper, this night, he writes to President Bailly, a new Letter, to be delivered shortly after dawn tomorrow, in the King's name. Which Letter, however, Bailly, in the pride of office, will merely crush together into his pocket, like a bill he does not mean to pay. [carlyle-1837,1,137.21] |
| simply | Yet many masters are deterred from encouraging the practice simply because of the enormous toil it imposes upon them if they make any attempt to look over the notes. [benson-1908,52.158] |
| still | for though the inconvenience has not been nothing, I should have feared still more. [austen-180x,174.298] |
| straight | Charles should now have called in Hopton and Newcastle to his aid, and marched straight on London. [oman-1895,387.153] |
| strait | and then row'd down strait upon us, 'till they came so near, that they could hear us speak. [defoe-1719,193.5] |
| surely | And surely in vain do we boast of the liberty which we wantonly abuse, and of the purity of our reformation, while we dishonour that character by the degeneracy of our manners; [burton-1762,2,26.372] |
| utterly | " Such as the cathedral? " calmly, not to say sleepily, inquired Alick, to the excessive diversion of Ermine, who saw that Rachel had never been laughed at in her life, and was utterly at a loss what to make of it. [yonge-1865,162.80] |
| very | & I have as yet done very little & Mary nothing at all. [austen-180x,181.472] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $eauer | for $eauer $se flesch is quickere. se þe hurtunge þrof is sarre. [cmancriw-1,II.88.1067] |
| $riht | & duste him $dun $riht to þer eorđe. [cmmarga,74.308] |
| anan-riht | Ne nawiht ne drede ich na deđ þt ouer-geađ for þt endelese lif þt he haueđ ilenet me anan-riht þer-efter. [cmkathe,43.387] |
| aure | Đis woreldes biwest is efned to wastene; for þat þe hit is ferren atleien holie tilđe. Hinc ex quo ueteres emigrauere coloni. Aure seđđen þe ealde tilie henne wenden. [cmtrinit,161.2187] |
| ay | Bot oftsyþes it befalles þat ay þe mare joy and wonduryng þai have wiþouten of þe lovyng of men, ay þe les joy þai have wiþin of þe luf of god. [cmrollep,87.393] |
| certes | Certes, ther is noon so horrible synne of man that it ne may in his lyf be destroyed by penitence, thurgh vertu of the passion and of the deeth of Crist. [cmctpars,312.C1.1007] |
| clene | and bare hym clene oute of the sadyll, [cmmalory,182.2491] |
| deope | & godd haued. ilahet hit. as ich ear seide. leste hwa-se leope. & þer ne ed-stode lanhure. nawt nere þt kepte him. & driue adun swireuorđ wiđ-uten ikepunge deope into helle. [cmhali,145.249] |
| eauer | versailunge of Sauter, redunge of Englisc ođer of Frensch hali þochtes, cneolunges, hwense ġe maġen iġemen, ear mete ant efter. Eauer se ġe mare dođ, se God echi ow forđere his grace. [cmancriw-1,I.74.295] |
| efne | Ich habbe isehen hu þe feond þe wende to fordo me; to-feol efne $a $twa. [cmmarga,72.275] |
| enterely | Grace and the goodenes of oure lorde Ihesu Criste that he hath shewed to the,- in with-drawynge of thyne herte fro luste and from likynges of worldely vanite, and vse of flesshly synnes and in the turnynge of thi will enterely to his seruyce and his plesaunce,- bryngith into my herte much mater to loue hym in his mercy. [cmrolltr,23.509] |
| euen | Bote manye and to manye þer beþ þat doþ euen þe contrarie, [cmaelr3,38.377] |
| euene | And certes, he is a glorious kyng and deyeþ in ioye, what so euere he be, to whos deeþ beþ angeles present, to whos laste slep holy halwen hiġetþ to and, ġyvyngge help as to here cyteseyn of heuene and mynystryngge hertly confort, fiġteþ for hym aġens his enemys, casteþ adoun his wiþstonderes and scharply conuicteþ his accousours, bryngyngge his soule euene to Abrahames bosum and to þe siġt of God, þer þat he schal abyden in reste, pees and liġt. [cmaelr3,56.948] |
| euer | ġe, and in euer þe fewer þe betir. [cmcloud,74.286] |
| euere | and euere whon þou art vuel at ese, he com-forteþ þe. [cmedvern,243.147] |
| eure | feren it is þat we and ure heldrene habbæđ ben turnd fro him; eure siđđen þe deuel com on neddre liche to adam. and mid his hinder worde bicherde him; þat he forlet þat god him het don. and dide þat god him forbet. and on þese wise turnde fro him. noht him one ac al his ofspring. alse þe holie boc seiđ. [cmtrinit,59.807] |
| euyn | Þan þe ankyr wyth gret reuerens & wepyng, thankyng God, seyd, " Dowtyr, ġe sowkyn euyn on Crystys brest, [cmkempe,18.367] |
| euyr | For euyr þe mor slawnder & repref þat sche sufferyd, þe mor sche incresyd in grace & in deuocyon of holy medytacyon of hy contemplacyon & of wonderful spechys & dalyawns whech owr Lord spak and dalyid to hyr sowle, techyng hyr how sche schuld be despysed for hys lofe, how sche schuld han pacyens, settyng all hyr trost, alle hyr lofe, and alle hyr affeccyon in hym only. [cmkempe,2.20] |
| even | So the Archebisshop by the advys of Merlyn send for alle the lordes and gentilmen of armes that they shold come by Crystmasse even unto London, [cmmalory,7.187] |
| evere | And evere as the sonne clymbith upper and upper, so goth his nadir downer and downer, teching by suche strikes the houres of planetes by ordir as they sitten in the hevene. [cmastro,673.C1.365] |
| evyn | Ande the same yere, a-pon Estyr daye at aftyr none, the Lorde Stronge and Syr John Trusselle, knyght, fylle at debate for hyr wyvys in the chyrche of Syn Donstonys in the Este, evyn at the prechyng tyme. [cmgregor,115.481] |
| fast | Bot fast after iche steryng, for corupcion of þe flesche, it falleþ doune aġein to som þouġt or to some done or vndone dede. [cmcloud,22.144] |
| for+den | Ne haue đu hope te golde ne to seluer, ne to none wordlles eihte, ne forđen te manne. [cmvices1,33.386] |
| for+t+an | and godes wrake cumeđ on þis woreld to wrekende on sunfulle men here gultes. and forþæn $on $rihtwise men þe hem neih wunien. [cmtrinit,161.2174] |
| for+ton | nalde he no. na forþon uppon þa muchele assa aġc uppon þa lutthle fole þat ġet hit wes sukinde ne ber hit nes nefre nane burđene ne hit nes nefere ifuled of nane ođre assa. [cmlambx1,5.39] |
| ful | for alswa as þe an neil driueđ ut þe ođer. alse þe brune of godes luue driueđ þe brune of ful luue ut of þe heorte. [cmancriw-2,II.296.844] |
| full | Also fro Ierusalem .ij. myle is the mountjoye a full fair place & a delicyous [cmmandev,62.1547] |
| fulle | and a fulle nobylle knyght, the Lorde Audeley, and Syr Thomas Hamdon, knyght, was the getynge of the fylde, and Thomas Squyer and Counteroller of the Pryncys house fulle sore hurte. [cmgregor,204.1728] |
| hure | Ne kepeđ he wiđ na mon & hure wiđ his famon; nan half dale. [cmhali,159.442] |
| principally | bot ay it stirres hym to do some gode þat myght be lykand til God, as in praying, or in wirkyng profitabel thynges, or in spekyng of Cristes passyon; and principally in thoght þat þe mynde of Jhesu Criste passe noght fra his thoght. [cmrollep,78.249] |
| pryncypally | Now, my dere frende, þou sall wyt þat þis Oryson passes all oþer prayers, pryncypally in twa thynges, þat es to say, in worthynes and in profyte. [cmedthor,36.498] |
| pryncypaly | Þen, whad by cownsell of þe kyng of Fraunce, and pryncypaly for the byddyng of þe pope, he ġode hom to Canturbury. [cmmirk,41.1200] |
| reghte | For þare þou ressayfes in sacrament reghte als þou ressayfede Hym in flesche and blude- [cmedthor,45.685] |
| ri+gt | And riġt as after-ward flew is ibete wit a betyl, to be þe mor suple to werk; rith so oure flehs is ibete and bouyd wit temptacioun many and diuers, to be þe more obedient to þe spirit. [cmaelr3,34.248] |
| richt | Sweordes dunt dun richt þt is þe hondlunge. [cmancriw-1,II.51.473] |
| richtes | Hwase wule mei stutten þrupe anan richtes efter þe formeste vreisun, Gratiam tuam, ant segge þenne hire tale of Auees efter þe leste salm, Ad te leuaui. [cmancriw-1,I.74.284] |
| right | Right as mekenesse is the grounde of alle vertues, as I haue saide bifore, so is pride the grounde and the moder of alle vices, the whiche caste Lucifer out of heuen and Adam oute of paradys. [cmaelr4,14.377] |
| righte | And righte as þou has noghte ane hare of thi heude þat it ne sall be gloryfyede, if swa be þou be safede, Righte swa sall schape nane houre þat it ne sall $be accountede. [cmedthor,17.42] |
| rihht | | All þuss iss þatt hallġhe Goddspell, | | Þatt iss o fowwre bokess, | | Nemmnedd Amminadabess waġġn | | & Salemanness karrte; | | Forr þatt itt waġġneþþ Crist till menn | | Þurrh fowwre Goddspellwrihhtess, | | Rihht alls iff itt wære þatt waġġn | | Þatt gaþ o fowwre wheless. | [cmorm,PREF.L51.86] |
| riht | and sais þat we sal belt us wid chastiment, riht trouz þat ye haue wid gode dede, þat tu belte þine lendis sua, and þat tine fete be shod in riht gate, Als þe gospel tellis, in his tretes þat þu ga, til his rengne þat þu may cume, þare hise frendis sal euir be, þat here hauis wele wroht. [cmbenrul,2.38] |
| rite | þei seid it was derogacioun to swech a state þat he schuld rite nowt do withoute councell; [cmcapchr,139.3231] |
| rith | And so Duk Roberd went hom ageyn, bering rith nowt with him but fayre promisses. [cmcapchr,103.2202] |
| ry+gt | And ryġt as afterward þis is iput to flex: a comb of smallere pryckes, to clense it more curiously- ryġt so we, whan we haue ouercome, wit gret trauayle, grete and wickede temptaciouns and passiouns of þe flehs, we schul be aboute to make vs clene of cotidian defautes by meke schryfte and due satisfaccioun. [cmaelr3,35.251] |
| ryght | " Certes me semeth, " quod I, " that Y see hem ryght as thoughe it were thurw a litil clyfte, [cmboeth,429.C1.10] |
| ryghte | þare-fore we pray Ihesu to for-gyff vs synnes, þat es to say, all þat we hafe synnede in thoghte, in worde and in dede; and þat ryghte als we for-gyffe till þase þat hase mysdone agaynes vs. [cmedthor,39.555] |
| rygth | & þerfor, dowtyr, rygth as þow seyst þe prest take þe chyld at þe funt-ston & dyppe it in þe watyr & wasch it fro oryginal synne, rygth so xal I wasch þe in my precyows blod fro alle þi synne. [cmkempe,30.670] |
| ryth | An-oþer tyme, ryth as sche cam be a powr womanys hows, þe powr woman clepyd hir in-to hir hows [cmkempe,94.2134] |
| sekirly | Sekirly for I wolde þat þou castedest it into depnes of spirite, fer fro any rude medelyng of any bodelines, þe whiche wolde make it lesse goostly, and ferþer fro God in as moche; and for I wote wel þat euer þe more þat þi spirit haþ of goostlines, þe lesse it haþ of bodelines and þe nerer it is God, and þe betyr it plesiþ hym, & þe more cleerly it may be seen of hym. [cmcloud,89.528] |
| singulerly | Iesu took mankynde þat þus was seek, not in eche persone but singulerly in one. [cmwycser,270.781] |
| spacialliche | Þe uerste stape of sobrete` is |
| speciali | for his meny were of euel gouernauns, speciali in taking of vitail and not paying. [cmcapchr,155.3645] |
| specialli | Also men moun knowe, hou sore God punishide Adam and Eue for brekyng of his comaundement; and hou Abel plesid God by feith, mekenesse and charite; and hou Caym displeside hym by synnes, and specialli by enuye, hatrede and manquellyng. Also hou Noe was loued of God, and al the world, outaken viij. persones, was distried for synne; and hou for pride and other synnes God departid many langagis, that no man vndirstood other in the tour of Babel; and hou feithful and obedient to God Abraham was, that he ġede out of his lond in to a straunge cuntre, and was redy to sle his owne sone Isaac at the wille of God, and gat therfore mich reward of God; and hou God distried Sodom and Gommor, and other thre cytees, for leccherye and other synnes, that tho weren sunkun doun; and the dede see is now where tho grete cytees weren. Also hou trewe and obedient to God weren Isaac and Jacob and Joseph, and hou God kepte hem in alle perels. [cmpurvey,I,4.124] |
| specialliche | In his first ġeres, and specialliche in Leynte, he dwellede in Seint Michel his chapel at Hagustald chirche, nouġt fer from þe ryver Tyne, in þe norþ hille of þe same place, þat hatte Hernischow an Englesshe, [cmpolych,VI,205.1461] |
| specially | And whyle it is so that man lyveth here in two lyves, one lyvynge after the pleasur of the worlde, the tother lyvynge here in vertue by grace to come to blysse, tho that woll geve one partye of theyr lyfe to vyces and another to vertue, and specially in theyr age, thyse maner of men dyvyde theyr cote, [cminnoce,12.198] |
| specialy | He beseged on Crescens, þat mad mech debate in Rome, specialy in elleccion of þe pope. [cmcapchr,95.1925] |
| specyal | Sythen sche schewyd hym al hyr maner of levyng fro hyr chyldhod as ny as it wolde come to hir mende,- how vnkynd sche had ben a-geyn owyr Lord Ihesu Crist, how prowde & veyne sche had ben in hir aport, how obstynat a-geyns þe lawes of God, & how envyows a-geyn hir euyn-cristen, sythen, whan it plesyd owyr Lord Crist Ihesu, how sche was chastysed wyth many tribulacyons & horrybyl temptacyons, & aftyrward how sche was fed and comfortyd wyth holy medytacyons & specyal in þe mende of owyr Lordys Passyon. [cmkempe,39.862] |
| specyally | In the seconde partye ye shall praye for the wele and peas of all Crysten reames, specyally for the reame of Englonde, Our soverayne lorde the Kyng, Our soverayne lady the Quene, My lorde the Prynce, My lady the Kynges Moder, My lorde her Husbonde, with all the Lordes of the Realme; The welfare of this Cyte, for my ryght worshypful broder and lover of the Mayer, with all the Aldermen and Shyrefs. [cminnoce,4.48] |
| specyaly | For, þat day, holy chyrche maketh gret melody yn worschyppe of hyr and of hyr swete sonne Ihesu Crist, our Lord, specyaly yn þre þynges: yn our lady puryfiyng, in Symones metyng, and yn candels offryng. [cmmirk,57.1582] |
| speycyally | and þer þay wer in gret saruavg, speycyally aftur þe dethe of Jacobe, tyll God send Meyses to delyuyr þem. [cmsiege,70.5] |
| strayght | and in that furynys they wente, as they sayde, for the comyn wele of the realme of Ingelonde, evyn strayght unto a marchaunte ys place i-namyd Phylyppe Malpas of London. [cmgregor,191.1462] |
| strayt | and thenne the Duke of Lancaster whithe alle othyr lordys went strayt unto Brystowe, [cmgregor,98.81] |
| streit | But to þo comnauntis þat were mad betwix Edmund and þe qweenes þe kyng of Frauns wold not consent; wherfor Edward, with his naue, sailed streit into Geround, and þere took he Borow, Bloys, Burdeus, and Bayon. [cmcapchr,133.3096] |
| streyght | And whan hit was tolde hym how she had asked hys hede of kynge Arthure, he wente to hir streyght [cmmalory,49.1610] |
| streyte | And so streyte unto the thirde knyght, [cmmalory,181.2439] |
| swi+de | & wundi eaR ha witen hit. wiđ swiđe attri healewi hare unwarre heorte. [cmmarga,77.368] |
| synderlice | Ođre underfođ sumne cume leoflice for þæs Hælendes lufe, ac þeos nænne ođerne cume bute þone Hælend sylf, na synderlice on ođren herbyrge, bute on hire agene innođe. [cmkentho,136.77] |
| verray | For, as seith Seint Ysidre, " He is a japere and A gabbere, and no verray repentant, that eftsoone dooth thyng for which hym oghte repente. " [cmctpars,288.C2b.18] |
| verry | Ande the Duke of Sowthefolke was a-pechyde at that Parlyment, he beynge at London, of verry graunte treson, and of many poyntys; among alle othyr, for that he schulde have solde Normandy, and also for the dethe of that nobylle prynce the Duke of Glouceter, and for many othyr poyntys of treson, for the whyche he was exylyd owte of Ingelonde for certayne yerys. [cmgregor,190.1430] |
| very | for a very trewe man schulde with yn xxiiij howrys make opyn to be knowe alle suche fals hyd thyngys of felony or treson, yf he be nott consentynge unto the same felowschyppe, undyr payne of dethe; [cmgregor,200.1627] |
| well | And so by fortune they were lodged with a jantilman that was a ryche man and well at ease. [cmmalory,62.2072] |
| wiss | | & let te posstless sen himm wel | | Inn hiss mennisske kinde; | | Forr þatt he wollde fesstnenn swa | | Soþ trowwþe i þeġġre brestess | | Off þatt he, wiss to fulle soþ, | | Wass risenn upp off dæþe, | | & i þatt illke flæsh þatt wass | | Forr uss o rode naġġledd; | [cmorm,DED.L199.48] |
Period=OE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $ra+de | and $rađe þæs hie wurdon begen ætsemne ofslagen. [coorosiu,Or_6:22.144.7.3022] |
| eac | þæt is nu þæs lichoman good þæt mon $sie fæger & strang & lang & brad, & $manegu $oþru good $to eac þæm; [coboeth,Bo:34.87.3.1659] |
| eallunga | Ac þa þa he wæs þa gita on þissere eorđan, þæt he mihte freolice brucan hwilwendlicra þinga, þa forseah he þysne middaneard mid his blostman, eallunga swilce he forsearod & forscrunken wære. [cogregdh,GDPref_2_[H]:95.4.975] |
| efne | Ond he forđon næfre noht leasunge, ne idles leoþes wyrcan meahte, ac efne þa an þa đe to æfestnesse belumpon, & his þa æfestan tungan gedeofanade singan. [cobede,Bede_4:25.342.16.3434] |
| emne | Ac se đonne se hit degellice deđ, & đeah wolde đæt he wurde arasod, & siđđan forđy hered, đeah hit đonne nan mon nyte, swađeah hit biđ beforan monnum gedon, emne swelce hit sie on ealra đara gewitnesse gedon đe he on his mode wilnode đæt hit hereden. [cocura,CP:59.451.18.3253] |
| for+den | And þa þa gewriten gerædde wæron, þa wæron heo gelice gewritene, þæt þær næs on nađer mare þone on ođern ane stæfe, ne forđen ane prica. [conicodc,Nic_[C]:392.375] |
| for+don | Ne mihte nan wana beon þam welwillendan Hælende ænig his limena æfter his æriste, þonne he us eallum behet þæt æfter urum deađe, þonne we on Domesdæg of deađe arisađ, þæt us ne biđ forloren forđon þæt læste hær on urum lichaman, be đam þe we on life hæfdon ær. [coaelhom,+AHom_7:156.1136] |
| ful | Ful sođ he sæde, [coprefgen,+AGenPref:15.10] |
| full | Gif þonne se eard full win næbbe, sylle ma ælcum þreo pund wines & þreo pund ealađ, [cochdrul,ChrodR_1:6.22.163] |
| fur+dan | Ne mænde he þone winter þe gewunelice cymđ on þæs geares ymbryne, ac swa swa he on ođre stowe cwæđ, quia abundabit iniquitas, refrigescet caritas multorum; þæt is, on Engliscum gereorde, þæt on þam yfelan timan arist seo unrihtwisnyss, and swiđe gemenigfylt, and seo sođe lufu swiđe acolađ, na ealra manna, ac swiđe manegra, þæt hy nateshwon ne lufiađ þone lifigendan God, ne hyra nyhstan, ne furđan hy sylfe; [coaelhom,+AHom_19:328.2849] |
| fur+don | Ealle þa gesceafta gesewenlice on worulde & þa ungesewenlican on þam $uppheofone þe ænige wununge habbađ, ge furđon þa wurmas, ealle hi synd gesceapene þurh þone sođan Wisdom, þe is Word gehaten on þisum godspelle; [coaelhom,+AHom_1:171.102] |
| fur+dum | Đa đæt land đa getawod wæs, & he on gerisne tid mid hwæte hit seow, þa ne com đær nænig grownes up ne wæstm, ne furđum brordes ođ sumeres tid. [cobede,Bede_4:29.366.24.3671] |
| fur+dun | Nat nan mann be þam dæge ne be þære tide ne furđun englas buton Fæder ana. [cowsgosp,Mt_[WSCp]:24.36.1695] |
| fur+tan | We secgađ eac to sođan þæt nan scincræft ne mæg, ne furþan se deofol sylf, nænne deadne aræran, for þam đe seo dæd is ures Drihtnes anes, þæt he đa deadan arære swa swa he dyde him sylf and eac þurh his halgan her on þysum life, se þe is sođ scyppend sawla and lichamena. [coaelhom,+AHom_30:60.4109] |
| fur+ton | Hi cyddon þa Almachie hu þæt mæden þurhwunode on þam hatum bađe mid halum lichaman, and furþon butan swate. [coaelive,+ALS_[Cecilia]:349.7317] |
| fur+tum | Æfter þæm gefeohte wæron Romane swa swiđe forþohte, þætte Celius Metellus, þe þa heora consul wæs, ge ealle heora senatus, hæfdon geþoht þæt hie sceoldon Romeburg forlætan, ge furþum ealle Italiam. [coorosiu,Or_4:9.101.21.2092] |
| hr+a+de | and se đe bote underfehđ, and he beo syđđan hræđe þæs of life, he sceal to reste gewiss, for þon þe he gecyrde fram his synnum to Gode. [coaelhom,+AHom_16:47.2281] |
| hra+de | and he hrađe þæs gewat to đam ecum witum butan dædbote, mid đam deoflum genyđerod. [coaelhom,+AHom_20:199.3053] |
| hra+te | Ond se burhgerefa hraþe æfter þam swealt mid arlease deađe. [comart3,Mart_5_[Kotzor]:Au22,B.7.1525] |
| hure | & bead him þæt he sceolde Dauid to him clypian & sceawan him alle þa đing & þa $madmæs đe Moyses æhte. Butan hure þingæ he nefræ þa gyrdan him sceawigen ne moste. [corood,LS_5_[InventCrossNap]:97.95] |
| huru | Se Hælend cwæđ eac, Gif hwa sylđ drincan anum þurstigum men huru ceald wæter, þæt he hæfđ his mede þære lytlan weldæde; [coaelhom,+AHom_17:194.2458] |
| ra+de | And þa sona beah Uhtred eorl and ealle Norđhymbre to him and eal þæt folc on Lindesige, and siđđan þæt folc into Fifburhingum, and rađe þæs eall here be norđan Wæclinga stræte, [cochronc,ChronC_[Rositzke]:1013.6.1555] |
| ra+te | & heom man raþe þæs wiđþingode. [cochrona-5b,ChronA_[Plummer]:1001.27.1441] |
| riht | & swa æl se feon riht to Esendic. [cochrone-interpolation,ChronE_[Plummer]:656.45.420] |
| ryhte | & ryhte be eastan him sindon Bæme, [coorosiu,Or_1:1.12.27.189] |
| ungemet | Eac of þæs magan adle cumađ monige & missenlica adla geborstena wunda & hramma & fyllewærc & fienda adl & micla murnunga & unrotnessa butan þearfe & oman & ungemetlica mete socna & ungemetlice unlustas & cisnessa & sara inadle on wifes gecyndon & on fotum & blædran & on unmode & on ungemet wæccum & ungewitlico word. [colaece,Lch_II_[2]:1.1.4.2113] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | foran|westan|ufan|eastan|suđan|suþan|norþan|norđan|easton|ufon|wæstan|æstan|hindan|forne|innan|suþaneastan|norþanwestan|norþaneastan|westannorþan|westannorđan|westansuđan|$westansuđan|uppan|mid |
| Middle English | here|awey|wiđuten|forđ|awaye|owai|to-fore|rounde|in-wiđ|bineođen|hom|forđe|aboue|high|$þer|forþ|home|þere|away|heuenly|wiþynne |
| early Modern English | there|abrode|round|before|ther|back|above|hither|heere|thence|away|backe|aboue|abroade|foorth|heare|abroad|alongst|cross|$nere|bake|rond|rownd|forth|hence|$there|thenceforth|behind|hidder|rounde|awaye|alonge|rownde|uppermoste |
| Modern British English | back|upright|midway|high|astride|halfway |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $nere | $but $nere to Bedford ther $was $sum $good $wood. [leland-e1-p1,99.389] |
| $there | Provyded also that yf any person or persones hereafter in any parte doo offende or doo contrary to the purvew and remedy of this Acte, $where $apon there is cause of accion for the same geven to the Kynge hys heires or successours or to any other p~son or persons that wyll sue by vertue of this acte for the punyshement of the seid offence or forfaytis, that yf the Kyng our Soveraigne Lorde hys heires or successours, within one yere next ymmedyatly after suche offences and forfaytes had and made, doo not pursue theire accion or accions soo geven by this seid acte or cause of examynacion uppon suche defautes and offences to be hade and made before theire counsell or other presentment~ therof to be had accordyng to the meanyng of the same acte, And every other p~son which hereafter may have accion or accions upon this Statute within half a yere next and immedyatly after suche offences and forfaytis had and made doo not comense theire sutes informacion or presentment~ of and $apon the sayd forffayt~ by accyon or otherwyse as of and upon suche forfaytes as be declared and expressed in this present acte, that then as well the Kyng our Soveraigne Lorde hys heires and successours after one yere next after suche offences and forfayties had and made, yf none sute in hys or theire name be taken by accion or otherwyse as is before expressed before the same yere ended and det~myned, as every other p~son after half a yere next after lyke offenses and forfayties had and made in forme aforeseid yf none sute $there $apon be taken by none of theyme in forme above declared, $be $utterly excluded and barred of theire seid suett~ actions and examynacions to theyme geven by vertue of this seid acte; And the parties and ev~y of theym soo offendyng be of all suche offences and forfayties clerely discharged and quyte; any thyng in this Acte comprised to the contrary notwithstondyng, and as though this Acte had never byn had nor made. [stat-1530-e1-p1,3,458.65] |
| aboue | And dyd not Peter remayne behynde to teche the people. the whiche our sauyour commytted vnto his charge. lyke as Aaron was lefte for to do the people of the Iewes. whan Moyses was aboue in the mount with god. [fisher-e1-h,1,317.69] |
| above | and found, that in warm Weather it would retain a manifest power of attracting for several minutes for it stirred a pois'd Needle after above 1$$4 of an hour after we had done rubbing it. Upon which encouragement we suspended it, being first well chafed, in a Glass Receiver that was not great, just over a light Body; [boyle-e3-h,30E.103] |
| abroad | And if he se any old ketle, chafer, or pewter dish abroad in the yard where he worketh, hee quicklye snappeth the same vp, [harman-e1-p1,59.72] |
| abroade | & this gott abroade all over ye Country: as a by worde: y=t= ye bible shoulde bee at liberty & I in prison: whoe said as ye book said: [fox-e3-h,82.93] |
| abrode | For this I know, not onelie by reading of bookes in my studie, but also by experience of life, abrode in the world, that those, which be commonlie the wisest, the best learned, and best men also, when, they be olde, were neuer commonlie the quickest, of witte, when they were yonge. [asch-e1-p1,4V.29] |
| alonge | and the Cananites dwell by the see a~d alonge by the coste of Iordayne. [tyndold-e1-h,13,20N.587] |
| alongst | for indeed the Countie of Murray is the most pleasantest, and plentifull Countrey in all Scotland; being plaine land, that a Coach may be driuen more then foure and thirtie miles one way in it, alongst by the Sea-coast. [jotaylor-e2-h,1,137.C2.256] |
| away | and the priest who was the cheaf worker ran away into Essex, wher he was laid for. [edward-e1-h,264.86] |
| awaye | and led him awaye to Anna fyrst: [tyndnew-e1-p1,18,1J.470] |
| back | " for els it could not be a blessed raigne, yf it should be the yoke of drawers back, not the favour of the obeyeng. [boethel-e2-p2,71.258] |
| backe | gett yo=u= backe to the Courte and that w=th= speede, [essex-e2-h,10.34] |
| bake | The vj day of Feybruary was Shroyff-tuwysday in the mornyng master Wyatt and ys compeny retorned bake towhard Kyngton apon Temes, [machyn-e1-p1,54.79] |
| before | But there was a certaine man called Simon, which before time in the same citie vsed sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giuing out that himselfe was some great one. To whom they all gaue heed from the least to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. [authnew-e2-p2,8,1A.235] |
| behind | She bare me two or three souses behind in the nape of the necke Til I made hir olde wesen, to answere againe kecke: [stevenso-e1-p2,47.195] |
| cross | give a cut then cross through the bark at the top of the slope, [langf-e3-h,40.138] |
| foorth | And noe sooner: was hee come foorth Into ye streets butt ye people made such a shoute y=t= ye streets runge with ye noice & cryed a papist Informer a papist Informer & fell upon him: & woulde have torne him in peices: [fox-e3-h,157.334] |
| forth | After that came Master Doctour Wilson forth from the lordes [morelet2-e1-h,503.20] |
| heare | She was looked for as this night heare at London [gawdy-e2-p1,22.9] |
| heere | & heere with morning and euening anoynt his necke very warme, for halfe an houre together: [clowes-e2-h,36.345] |
| hence | M=r= Edmondes. The reason whie yo=w= haue not receaued anie letters from hence, hath ben in regarde that yo=w= might be fullie aduertised of all thinges passed vppon the departure of the ffr. Embassadour whose staie hath been occasioned partly by his owne Indisposicon of health, as also and that especiallie to the intent he might receaue auswere to diuerse Proposicions made by him on the kinges behalfe. [rcecil-e2-p1,219.19] |
| here | And whereas the vii. Planets called the wandring starres, doe change their places now here now there, that chanceth not by their owne moouing, but by the moouing of the heauens wherin they are placed: [blundev-e2-p2,159V_misnumbered_as_158V.321] |
| hidder | And Iesus answered them: my father worketh hidder to, [tyndnew-e1-h,5,1J.367] |
| hither | As all learning is grounded on reason: so in every Chapter I shall endeavour my selfe to manifest the reasons of every thing, and how you may teach others; so farre forth, as hither to the Lord hath made them knowne unto me. [brinsley-e2-h,45.182] |
| rond | The vij day of Marche rod a bocher rond a-bowt London, ys face toward the horsse taylle, with $half $of a lame be-fore and a-nodur behynd, and vell and a calff borne a-for hym, a-pon a polle, rawe. [machyn-e1-p1,57.145] |
| round | Then came the Iewes round about him, [authnew-e2-h,10,20J.1411] |
| rounde | Then came the Iewes rounde aboute him, [tyndnew-e1-h,10,20J.947] |
| rownd | M. Fenton told that before my Lord Bromley and others ther was a pore felow crept Rownd abowt a hote oven. [madox-e2-p1,97.149] |
| rownde | But before they went to rest, the men of the cyte of Sodome compassed the house rownde aboute both olde and yonge, all the people from all quarters. [tyndold-e1-p1,19,1G.686] |
| thence | The 18. day, we went from thence some 14. course ouer the sands, that part the Hendownes and Multans, [coverte-e2-h,45.304] |
| thenceforth | And yet nevertheless whensoever the said persons or any of them shall willingly submit themselves in their obedience to her Majestie, and will come to the Church to heare Divine Service, and willingly refuse their said wilfull obstinacie, and conforme themselves in the said causes of Religion and Doctrine, and continue in such their conformity and due obedience to her Majestie, according as by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme they ought to doe, then and from thenceforth all and every such person and persons so submitting and yeelding themselves in their due obedience towards her Majestie, and so continuing in the same shall forthwith be received and enabled by force of this Act to have and enjoy the full benefite of this generall Pardon as largely and fully in all respects as any other of her Majesties good Subjects have or ought to enjoyne by virtue of this Act: [stat-1580-e2-p2,4,702.83] |
| ther | And yf all the monye in the worlde were gathered together and in one mans possessyon, other folke that lackyd monye shoulde haue nede ther of. [boethco-e1-p1,41.412] |
| there | and the okes are sold to William Clapame and Richard Clapame, and the aches to the towards there about. [aplumpt-e1-h,188.133] |
| uppermoste | the earle of Bedforde sat as chefest uppermoste uppon the benche; next unto hym the earle of Sussex; next him syr Rycharde Southwelle; [underhill-e1-p2,139.55] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| above | and we may see from the figure, as well as from the above description, that the orbit of this new satellite is situated between the orbits of the other two. [herschel-1797,19.399] |
| abroad | when God's judgments were seen abroad in the earth, they then began to learn righteousness: [burton-1762,2,10.181] |
| astride | The vintners had Bacchus, dressed in ivy and vine leaves, astride upon a tun, with a bowl of wine in his two hands, drinking to the health of the people; and a number of bacchanals, Silenus, fauns, and satyrs, following him. [okeeffe-1826,1,4l.441] |
| back | hence, if we go back to the sources, we have a double task; [bain-1878,374.232] |
| forth | A European metropolitan City hurled suddenly forth from its old combinations and arrangements; to crash tumultuously together, seeking new. [carlyle-1837,1,152.422] |
| halfway | It has been deeply excavated near a small fountain about halfway up, where are found beautiful crystals of quartz in the cavities of the veins; and flexible asbestus amianthus in considerable quantity. [ruskin-1835,1,17.444] |
| here | This very Man's Hand of yours must be employ'd in writing a Letter from my Unkle Richlove in London to me here at York, to let me know that Alderman Brittle, in whose Hands my Money is, is broke, and gone off with all. [davys-1716,37.456] |
| high | and the Cold therefore affecting them most, they go up high among the Combs, [maxwell-1747,32.394] |
| midway | but now let me take this card E, which is equal to the other one in size, and place it midway between the lamp and the screen; [faraday-1859,34.337] |
| round | and all sat round about it singing. [cook-1776,29.547] |
| thence | and I retired from the farm of Quatre Bras upon Genappe, and thence upon Waterloo, the next morning, the I7th, at 10 o'clock. [wellesley-1815,858.407] |
| upright | Suppose I take this sheet of paper, and place it upright on one edge, resting against a support before me as the roughest possible illustration of something to be disturbed, [faraday-1859,4.33] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $+ter | For $þer $as þe kyng had beġonde þe see mony castellys and townys out of his hond, and had spende moche goode, and sched moche blode, forto gete hom, and myght not avayle, then Thomas wyth hys wytte and monhed gete hom aġeyne. [cmmirk,39.1125] |
| +tere | and heet Brook his lay, for many brokkes were somtyme i-woned to come þider out of þe hilles þat beeþ þere nyh. [cmpolych,VI,205.1465] |
| aboue | for the eyr aboue was so drye. [cmmandev,10.202] |
| away | Cownsel es, doyng away of worldes rytches and of delytes and of al thynges þat man may be $tagild with in thoght or dede; and þarwith be drawne inwardely til contemplacion of God. [cmrollep,116.936] |
| awaye | ac ye byeþ awaye |
| awey | Þer we takeþ sumwhat off whitnesse in þe wasschyngge awey of þe vielþe of synne, [cmaelr3,34.244] |
| bineo+den | & stod þe axtreo istraht o twa half in-to stanene postles. þt hit. as hit turnde. ne ouer-toke nohwer bineođen to þer eorđe. [cmjulia,117.365] |
| for+d | Of þeos seoue beastes & of hare streones in wildernesse of anlich lif is iseid hider to. þt alle þe forđ farinde fondit to for donne [cmancriw-1,II.156.2125] |
| for+de | Ne we ne beođ iboren for to habbene nane prudu ne forđe nane ođre rencas [cmlambx1,7.72] |
| for+t | | & he shall newenn cumenn forþ | | To turrnenn & to wendenn | | Þe suness þurrh hiss hallġhe spell | | Till þeġġre faderr herrte; | [cmorm,I,3.152] |
| here | But þis bayly wisly turnede hym to a good counseyl þat, while he lyuede here in eurþe, he schulde make men his frendys wiþ good of God þat he kepuþ, [cmwycser,258.607] |
| heuenly | and, are he be callede of Godd, he gedyrs his wittys by violence to seke and to be-halde heuenly thynges, are his eghe be made gastely by grace, and ouertrauells by ymagynacionns his wittes, and by vndiscrete trauellynge turnes þe braynes in his heuede, and forbrekes þe myghtes and þe wittes of þe saule and of þe body; [cmrolltr,18.433] |
| high | And also high to the contrarie þei han the nyght whan wee han the day. [cmmandev,121.2962] |
| hom | Summe heldyn it was a dede of gret charite for-as-meche as hir dowtyr had be-forn-tyme left hir frendys & hir cuntre & cam wyth hir husbond to visityn hir in þis cuntre þat sche wolde now halpyn hir dowtyr hom a-geyn in-to þe cuntre þat sche cam fro. [cmkempe,229.3736] |
| home | and wente home aġe. [cmpolych,VI,65.447] |
| in-wi+d | As he hefde en-chere bihalden swiđe ġeorne hire $utnumme feire. & freoliche ġuheđe; felde him iwundet in-wiđ in his heorte wiđ þe flan þe of luue fleođ. swa þt him þuhte þet ne mahte he nanes-weis wiđ ute þe lechnunge of hire luue libben. [cmjulia,96.13] |
| owai | For our Lord ne shal nouġt put owai his folk [cmearlps,116.5058] |
| rounde | Thenne the arche-byscoppys and byschoppys stode rounde a-boute hym, [cmgregor,165.887] |
| to-fore | Min eġen com to-fore to þe in þe morwening, þat ich þouġt þin wordes. [cmearlps,154.6855] |
| wi+duten | Ach hwerse mon ođer wummon liueđ bi $ham ane, ermite ođer ancre, of þinges wiđuten, $hwarof $scandle ne $cume, nis naut muche strengđe. [cmancriw-1,I.50.99] |
| wi+tynne | Þe fyrste was þe personys dowtyr, þat he reysude wiþynne in þe hows. [cmwycser,283.1029] |
Period=OE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $westansu+dan | & be westan him is se beorh Athlans, ođ đone garsecg, & be suþan đa beorgas þe man hæt Æsperos; & be $westansuđan him Aulolum sio þiod, ođ đone garsecg. [coorosiu,Or_1:1.20.20.401] |
| +astan | Earnulf wunode on þam lande be æstan Rine. [cochrone,ChronE_[Plummer]:887.9.1296] |
| eastan | Wæs bi eastan þære ceastre welneah sumo cirice in are Sancti Martini geo geara geworht, mid þy Romani þa gyt Breotone beeodon; [cobede,Bede_1:15.62.2.575] |
| easton | We witan oþer egland her be easton. þer ge magon eardian gif ge willađ. [cochrone,ChronE_[Plummer]:0.11.10] |
| foran | Þis is swa we ær sædon, þæt seo witegung is of him, and þa þing þe becomon he cydde him foran to, and heora mod onlihte mid his micclan gife. [coaelhom,+AHom_7:216.1160] |
| forne | & ahoh abutan þæs mannes swyran swa þæt he hangie forne gean đa miltan. [coherbar,Lch_I_[Herb]:18.3.536] |
| hindan | & ferde him æt hindan. [cochrone,ChronE_[Plummer]:1016.74.2012] |
| innan | Wiþ innan onfealle, $næglæs hatte wyrt suþerno, sio biđ god to etanne wiþ innan onfelle on niht nestig. [colaece,Lch_II_[1]:41.1.1.1422] |
| mid | & ealle þa betstborenan on Egypta lande mid him foron. & eac his gebroþru mid & eal heora hiwræden, buton geongum litlingum & hyrdum đa hi forleton on Gessen lande. [cootest,Gen:50.8.2175] |
| nor+dan | Þa gegadrode Æþered ealdormann and Æđelelm ealdormann and Æþelnođ ealdormann, and þa cingas đegnas þe đa æt ham wæron æt þam geweorcum, of ælcere byrig be eastan Pedredan, ge be westan Sealwuda, ge be eastan, ge eac be norđan Temese, and be westan Sæfern, ge eac sum dæl þæs Norđweallcynnes. [cochronc,ChronC_[Rositzke]:894.59.923] |
| nor+tan | Þa gegaderode Æþered ealdormon, & Æþelm ealdorman. & Æþelnoþ ealdorman, & þa cinges þegnas þe þa æt ham æt þæm geweorcum wæron, of ælcre byrig be eastan Pedredan, ge be westan Sealwuda ge be eastan, ge eac be norþan Temese, & be westan Sæfern, ge eac sum dæl þæs Norđ Weal cynnes. [cochrona-2a,ChronA_[Plummer]:894.71.1069] |
| nor+taneastan | Be norþaneastan Maroara sindon Dalamentsan, [coorosiu,Or_1:1.13.10.204] |
| nor+tanwestan | & be norþanwestan him sindon Frisan, [coorosiu,Or_1:1.12.28.192] |
| su+dan | ac swylce eac bi suđan sæ in Germania & eac somod þa dælas Hibernia Scotta ealondes se hlisa his wundra bicwoom. [cobede,Bede_3:11.188.27.1910] |
| su+tan | & þy ilcan geare geeode Ecgbryht cyning Miercna rice & al þæt be suþan Humbre wæs, [cochrona-1,ChronA_[Plummer]:827.2.641] |
| su+taneastan | & be suþaneastan þæm porte is þæt igland Deprobane. [coorosiu,Or_1:1.9.23.122] |
| ufan | & on þam ufan stodon gewæpnode scyttan, [coalex,Alex:8.8.41] |
| ufon | & þa gewrohte he weall mid turfum. & bred weall đær on ufon. fram sæ to sæ. Britwalum to gebeorge. [cochrone,ChronE_[Plummer]:189.1.82] |
| uppan | & get ele đær on uppan. [cootest,Gen:28.18.1171] |
| w+astan | Her Aldelm biscop forđferde. seo wæs be wæstan wudu biscop [cochrone,ChronE_[Plummer]:709.1.644] |
| westan | Nu næs us his lif cuđ swa swa we ær cwædon, butan þæt he wæs bebyrged æt his bisceopstole be westan þære cyrcan and oferworht syđđan, oþþæt his wundra geswutelodon his gesælđa mid Gode. [coaelive,+ALS_[Swithun]:17.4229] |
| westannor+dan | & be westannorđan þære byrig Donua muđa þære ea scyt suđeast ut on đone sæ Euxinus; [coorosiu,Or_1:1.18.5.350] |
| westannor+tan | & be westannorþan him sindon Scridefinne & be westan Norþmenn. [coorosiu,Or_1:1.13.24.221] |
| westansu+dan | & be westansuđan Corinton is Achie þæt land, æt þæm Wendelsæ. [coorosiu,Or_1:1.18.12.354] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | swa|$swa|swilce|togædere|swylce|swylc|ætgædre|suæ|somed|đyllice|gelice|swæ|samod|swaswa|ealswa|sua|samad|somod|þus|mistlice |
| Middle English | stedfaste|alswa|nomeliche|togederes|asswa|imene|fleschliche|nomelich|to|aswa|vnmeteliche|unhendeliche|alse|ylike|onlepiliche|alsuo|zuo|aryġt|ariġt|gostliche|aiont|so|iliche|deedly|togidre|to-gidres|lyke|leke|parfytliche|vuel|also|alwey|holy|to-ġederes|al-swa|sore|unneađe|opinli|togyder|els|to-gederes|lych|lech|lyk|liche|lyche|gastliche|alrihtes|like|merveillous|false|thus|worldely|passyng|togidres|togidrere|togidere|to-gidere|hard|lik|unneđe|to-gedere|swo|togydre|freely |
| early Modern English | along|together|like|so|lyke|togither|$thus|violently|well|truely|soo|harde|soe|by|$like|sore|wronge|dearly|truly|generally|antecedently|wonder|perfect|lycke |
| Modern British English | aloud|affec=tely=|alike|separately|necessarily|independently|inversely|carefully|miserably|certain|pretty|mighty|equally|provisionally|dear |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $like | And $like as the towne and the $ground that it stondith on and $that $that $is $about $it $by north is highe, $so $all $the $grownd $on the south side $without $the $towne is a playn low $medow $grownd $where $at $rienne but litle $lins $and $Trent $river. [leland-e1-p1,95.307] |
| $thus | And that thou mayst know that true honour can not hap by these shaded dignities, gather it $thus: [boethel-e2-p2,50.124] |
| along | and he commanded that they should very narrowly and privately watch his motions; and that he should not stir from his apartment, but one spy or other shou'd be employ'd to watch him: So that the hour approaching, wherein he was to go to the citrongrove; and taking only Aboan along with him, he leaves his apartment, [behn-e3-p1,169.247] |
| antecedently | These and many other things are supposed to be true, and naturally known to us, antecedently to all supernatural Revelation; [tillots-b-e3-p1,435.59] |
| by | some dwell hard by [jetaylormeas-e3-p2,16.18] |
| dearly | Take yow all heed therefore, dearly belovyd; [mowntayne-e1-p1,192.340] |
| generally | And Therefore her Highnesse, of her most gratious Disposition, is contented and pleased that it bee enacted by the aucthoritie of this presente Parliament, in manner and forme followinge, that is to say; That all and every her said Subjects, as well Spirituall as Temporall of this her Highnesse Realm of England, Wales, the Isles of Jernesey and Garnesey, and the Towne of Barwick, the Heires Successors Executors and Administrators of them and every of them, and all and singuler Bodies in any manner of wise corporated, Cities Boroughs Shires Ridings Hundreds Laths Rapes Wapentakes Townes Villages Hamlets and Tythings, and every of them, and the Successor and Successors of every of them, $shall $be by the authority of this present Parliament acquitted pardoned released & discharged, agaynst the Queenes Majesty her Heires & Successors and every of them, of all maner of Treasons Felonies Offences Contempts Trespasses Entries Wrongs Deceits Misdemeanors Forfeitures Penalties and Sums of Money, Paines of Death, Paines Corporal and pecuniary, and generally of all other Things Causes Quarrels Sutes Judgements and Executions, in this present Act hereafter not excepted nor foreprised, which may be or can be by her Highnesse in any wise or by any meanes pardoned, before and unto the first day of January last past in this present xxiij yeere of her most gracious Reigne, to every or any of her said Subjects Bodies Corporated Cities Boroughes Shires Ridings Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Townes Villages & Tithings or any of them. [stat-1580-e2-p2,4,698.25] |
| harde | Dogfenell, goldes, mathes, and kedlokes are yll to wede after this maner, they growe vppon so many braunches, harde by the erthe: [fitzh-e1-p2,31.167] |
| like | And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues, like as of fire, [authnew-e2-p1,2,1A.1176] |
| lycke | And, besydys my dayly prayer and true hert, I shal so requyte your kyndnes as ye shal haue cause to thyncke the same to be wel imployed, lycke as my seyde trusty frende shal more amply shewe unto yow to whom yt may please yow to give for me credens and loving audience: [wolsey-e1-p1,1.2,6.23] |
| lyke | For lyke as syckenes is the dyssease of the bodye, euen so vyce and synne is as the syckenes of the mynde, or soule. [boethco-e1-h,103.776] |
| perfect | Peter. O' my word this Trout is perfect in season. [walton-e3-p2,238.28] |
| so | and possibly compel us to treat him so as I should be very loth to behold: that is, it might occasion his confinement. [behn-e3-h,192.221] |
| soe | And soe as I said before: wee past from Bristoll into Wiltsheere [fox-e3-p2,118.393] |
| soo | it was not soo as he sayd. [fisher-e1-p2,337.80] |
| sore | and lay sore upon the Danes till night parted them as before: [milton-e3-h,X,271.99] |
| together | and he, by the foolishness of his talk and the company he kept, together w=th= the accusation of one Brown, either a bookseller or printer, who is in custody, who sayd he delivered him a booke, w=ch= he published, $called an Anser to a letter to a Bishop w=ch= was writ by the Bishop of St. Asaph. [anhatton-e3-p1,2,152.10] |
| togither | But this a phisician that knowes the meane of his helth & sicknes togither with his temper, nothing wonders at. [boethel-e2-h,94.387] |
| truely | now by my truely I am glad to see you in health. [deloney-e2-h,69.7] |
| truly | and by my truly, sometimes they both go out; [penny-e3-p2,210.346] |
| violently | Ph. Then therefore that which is one simple Nature is torn violently asunder by the Pravity of Men; [boethpr-e3-h,126.39] |
| well | The other thing to be here taken notice of concerning Negroes is, That having enquir'd of an Intelligent acquaintance of mine who keeps in the Indies about 200. of them as well VVomen as Men to work in his Plantations, whether their Children come Black into the world; he answer'd, That they did not, but were brought forth of almost the like Reddish Colour with our European Children; [boylecol-e3-p2,164.150] |
| wonder | Ther ys a wonder fayer Chapell of o=r= lady, [torkingt-e1-h,64.428] |
| wronge | I was so sore wronge aboughte my wreste that the blud was redy to spyn owte at my fyngeres endyes. [mowntayne-e1-h,205.159] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| affec=tely= | - And remain with Love, Y=rs= affec=tely= J. A. [austen-180x,181.486] |
| alike | and thinks fame and rank alike worthless without power. [boethja-1897,97.45] |
| along | and out of several meanings of any one word, a selection has to be made such as to give sense along with the selected meanings of the others. [bain-1878,369.166] |
| aloud | but while they were animating one another to the Work, three of them that were a little before the rest, call'd out aloud to them, [defoe-1719,213.352] |
| carefully | and remember that the more carefully and quietly you make this experiment at home, the better the crystals. [faraday-1859,42.438] |
| certain | The observations I allude to relate to the discovery of four additional satellites: to surmises of a large and a small ring, at rectangles to each other: to the light and size of the satellites: and to their disappearance at certain distances from the planet. [herschel-1797,3.7] |
| dear | It is just twenty years that we had that very very happy meeting at dear Coburg, when you and dear Louise were there! [victoria-186x,1,271.694] |
| equally | " That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of Him; having the eyes of your heart enlightened, so that you may know, what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints "- this relates to what eye hath not seen nor ear heard, the glory of those already perfected, but he adds, as equally an object of revelation, the might of grace which God puts forth here below- " and what the transcending greatness of His power to usward the believing, according to the working of the strength of His might, which He worked in Christ, in that He raised Him from the dead, and placed Him on His Right Hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and dominion, and every name which is named, not only in this world but in that which is to come, and hath subjected all things under His feet. " [pusey-186x,309.412] |
| generally | In reading the Latin poets, first of all they deliver the parts of speech, the order of the words, the most remarkable rules of construction, the prosody of a part of the lesson, and generally the literal English of the whole. [chapman-1774,205.292] |
| independently | but you can begin in time always, and fill your sheet independently of any of them. [carlyle-1835,2,268.210] |
| inversely | They say and they are right that two bodies attract each other inversely as the square of the distance, [faraday-1859,33.332] |
| mighty | and for the first time set foot on the land where our nation had, as it were, its cradle; where our ancestors were persecuted, but grew up into a mighty people, and whence they were led forth by the arm of the Almighty. The land of the Pharaohs, a name so renowned in history, and of the Ptolemies, a name so famed in the records of learning and the arts! [montefiore-1836,130.33] |
| miserably | I was shewn into a Room, where stood an old harpsichord, miserably out of tune, [haydon-1808,1,9.138] |
| necessarily | Each chapel would fain gather together its members for as many evenings, or holidays in the week as possible, not necessarily for religious exercises, but for indoor ones of various sorts. [bradley-1905,228.414] |
| pretty | I fancy it would have very much improved his art, to see so many fine women naked, in different postures, some in conversation, some working, others drinking coffee or sherbet, and many negligently lying on their cushions, while their slaves generally, pretty girls of seventeen, or eighteen were employ'd in braiding their hair in several pretty fancies. [montagu-1718,100.283] |
| provisionally | 4. The Exhibition at any Industrial Exhibition entitled to the Benefit of this Act of any new Design capable of being registered provisionally under the " Design Act, 1850, " or of any Article to which such Design is applied, shall not, nor shall the Publication during the Period of the holding of such Exhibition of any Description of such Design, prejudice the Right of any Person to register, provisionally or otherwise, such Design, or invalidate any Provisional or other Registration which may be granted for such Design. [statutes-1865,105,3.44] |
| separately | For as all these things are by nature one and the same, he that pursues any one of them separately from the others, will never obtain what he desires. [boethri-1785,107.54] |
| so | 1. That I fell upon the Cornwal's Weather-Quarter during the Time of Action, and from thence the Rear-Admiral would infer, the losing of his Maintop-Mast as a Consequence. 2. That so soon as I had got clear of the Cornwal's Weather-Quarter I luffed up, and fell upon the Cornwal's Weather-Bow. 3. That I luffed up a second Time, when the Warwick was coming up. 4. That I was ordered to bear down upon the Enemy just after the Cornwal withdrew; but that I did not do so as I ought to have done, notwithstanding those Orders. 5. That I fired upon the Strafford so long and so obstinately, that I did her great Mischief; Altho' I had been several Times hailed by her. 6. And in general that my Behaviour had been very bad during the Course of the Action, except only at the Beginning. [holmes-letters-1749,85.59] |
| together | The Geography which I recommend, is Dr. Well 's little Book of Geography, together with the Maps, in which there is an admirable good System of both New and Antient Geography, done after a plain and easy Method, [anon-1711,21.212] |
| truly | ever more truly yours F. Nightingale [nightingale-188x,419.211] |
| well | I got well over this table, [fayrer-1900,23.602] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| aiont | at þe þridde tyme aiont wid þe " gloria patri "; and siþin after þe nihend-ferþe salme wid þe antefen ouþir wid-vten; and syþin efter þe ymne; And tare-eftyr sexe salmis wid þe antefens. [cmbenrul,16.551] |
| alrihtes | Sed obseruandum est quod prudens sator obseruat & glebe aptitudinem & temporis opportunitatem. hit is to witene þet alrihtes swa alse þe wise teolie þenne he wule sawe nimeđ ġeme of twam þingen. [cmlambx1,133.1335] |
| alse | þe blisse þat he greiþed alse as it is uneuenelike til alle uerdlike blisses; also it is untalelike to alle werdlike þingis. [cmancriw-2,II.318.1160] |
| also | Also as is seid of Beestes, also vndurstond of herbes; [cmedvern,245.221] |
| alsuo | And alsuo ase hit is strang þing to telle |
| alswa | Nan ancre ne schal bi mi read makien professiun, þet is, bihaten heste alswa ase heste, buten þreo þinges. [cmancriw-1,I.44.51] |
| al-swa | for al-swa as of þis lure. nis nan acouerunge; al swa is euch wurđ; unwurđ her towart. [cmhali,147.281] |
| alwey | & nota þ=t= alwey as the label turnyth |
| ari+gt | Ac þe uayrhede of þe zaule: is uayrhede ariġt |
| ary+gt | Þanne þise ne byeþ: ne grete guodes |
| asswa | asswa se ġe maġen iseon. water hwenne me Punt hit & stoppeđ hit bifore wel þt hit ne maġe dunewart þenne is hit ined aġein forto climben upwart. [cmancriw-1,II.59.596] |
| aswa | Aswa as namon ne luueđ leomen for ham seolf ach deđ for þe þinges þt me wurcheđ wiđ ham. aswa nan flesches derf nis to luue bute for þi. þt god þe rađere þiderwart lokeđ mid his grace & makeđ þe heorte schir & of bricht sichđe. [cmancriw-2,II.282.601] |
| deedly | And therfore, the love of every thyng that is nat biset in God, ne doon principally for Goddes sake, although that a man love it lasse than God, yet is it venial synne; and deedly synne whan the love of any thyng weyeth in the herte of man as muchel as the love of God, or moore. [cmctpars,298.C2.429] |
| els | and I aske nought els for my travayle botte that I myght paye the. [cmjulnor,58.228] |
| false | for he was a false Crysten man. ' [cmmalory,643.4038] |
| fleschliche | froure nomeliche. to fleschliche asaillet. [cmancriw-1,II.178.2500] |
| freely | And so Crist suffrede more freely þan Baptist or oþre martires, [cmwycser,414.3408] |
| gastliche | Crist cweđ on his godspelle bi þan gastliche wrecchan. Beati pauperes spiritu; quoniam ipsorum est regnum celorum. tet is. eadiġe beođ þa wrecchan þe on gaste beođ wrecchan; [cmlambx1,113.1101] |
| gostliche | Ac sobrete` and temperance |
| hard | Þir er hard questyons to lere til a febyll man and a fleschly, als I am. [cmrollep,108.761] |
| holy | and put hys herte and mynde holy unto God, [cmgregor,211.1917] |
| iliche | For alle synne hem þinkyþ- I mene for þe tyme of þis werk- iliche greet in hem-self, when þe leest synne departeþ hem fro God, and letteþ hem of here goostly pees. [cmcloud,78.356] |
| imene | & speke we of alle imene. [cmancriw-1,II.72.819] |
| lech | And lech as hys felaw dede so dede he, [cmkempe,10.188] |
| leke | And this kyng dyd to Seynt Edmond leke as hys vnkylle Herry dyd to Seynt Thomas, [cmedmund,172.261] |
| liche | & was clad al in white liche as sche was comawndyd for to do ġerys be-forn in hir sowle be reuelacyon, [cmkempe,80.1804] |
| lik | For lik as oure princes and lordes spoyleth and robbeþ þer suggettus and doþ daily, euen so God suffreþ þe ethen princes to robb and spoile oure lordes and princes, euen as þei do to oþur: [cmroyal,255.280] |
| like | So like as Merlyn devysed it was done. [cmmalory,6.145] |
| lych | Ne hyr-self cowd neuyr telle þe grace þat sche felt, it was so heuenly, so hy a-bouen hyr reson & hyr bodyly wyttys, and hyr body so febyl in tym of þe presens of grace þat sche myth neuyr expressyn it wyth her word lych as sche felt it in hyr sowle. [cmkempe,3.24] |
| lyche | and, lyche as be-for-tyme sche had iiij owrys of þe for-noon in holy spechys & dalyawns wyth owr Lord, so had sche now as many owrys of fowle thowtys & fowle mendys of letchery & alle vnclennes as thow sche xulde a be comown to al maner of pepyl. [cmkempe,145.3351] |
| lyk | & sumtyme, whan sche saw þe Crucyfyx, er yf sche sey a man had a wownde er a best wheþyr it wer, er ġyf a man bett a childe be-for hir er smet an hors er an-oþer best wyth a whippe, ġyf sche myth sen it er heryn it, hir thowt sche saw owyr Lord be betyn er wowndyd lyk as sche saw in þe man er in þe best, as wel in þe feld as in þe town, & be hir-selfe $alone as wel as a-mong þe pepyl. [cmkempe,69.1556] |
| lyke | and fownde al thyng lyke as Seynt Edmond tolde theym. [cmedmund,167.125] |
| merveillous | and they be kynges and merveillous good men of her handes: [cmmalory,15.439] |
| nomelich | For $þi $beođ eauer aġein him. hardi ase liun $in $treowe bileaue. nomelich $i $þe fondung þt isboset deide up on þt is galnesse. [cmancriw-1,II.201.2873] |
| nomeliche | Forþi, þet ich write ou, mine leoue sustren, of uttere þinges in þe eareste dale of ouwer boc of ouwer seruise, ant nomeliche in þe leste, ġe ne schule naut bihaten, ach habben hit on heorte ant don hit as ġe hit hefde bihaten. [cmancriw-1,I.46.66] |
| onlepiliche | Vor hit ne is naġt |
| opinli | I speke not of fleschly loue þat is opinli yuel, þe which owid to be hatid of alle Cristis louers, as a þing moost feendly, moost perelous, and moost contrarie to þe chastite of Cristis loue; [cmhilton,18.127] |
| parfytliche | What is to lyuen parfytliche, and what is Godes wille. [cmedvern,240.10] |
| passyng | He was so scars of drynke þat seelde he wolde drynke þreis passyng in his soper. [cmpolych,VI,255.1852] |
| so | for so as every of thise forseide thinges is the same that thise othere thynges ben that is to seyn, al oon thyng, whoso that evere seketh to geten the toon of thise, and nat the tothir, he ne geteth nat that he desireth. " [cmboeth,430.C1.78] |
| sore | Hwen hit þenne þer-to kimeđ; þt sore sorhfule angoise. þt stronge & stinkinde stiche. þt unroles uuel. þt $pine. ouer pine. þt wondrinde ġeomerunge. hwil þu swenchest ter-wiđ. & þine deađes dute. scheome teke þt sar wiđ þe alde wifes scheome creft. þe cunnen of þt wa-siđ. hwas help þe bihoueđ. ne beo hit neauer se uncumelich [cmhali,155.398] |
| stedfaste | And euere he saide with stedfaste abidynge, ' Lord, I shal not cesse cryenge, [cmaelr4,12.310] |
| sua | And als-sua þa þat aier by þe gate, þai ne sal noht leue þe vris þat ere stablist, bot sua als tay mai, sai þaim And yelde god his seruise. [cmbenrul,34.1106] |
| swa | Ach for alle ondsweres wendeđ anan from ward him swa as $i $seide. [cmancriw-1,II.78.914] |
| swo | ' Eadi bieđ đe milde, forđan hie sculen hauen milce of gode, swo swo hie habbeđ milce of mannen. ' [cmvices1,113.1367] |
| thus | For I have endured thus longe for litill trespasse, a full grete whyle! ' [cmmalory,653.4399] |
| to | he ġeoue þe sunne & þu him þi saule & ti bodi to mid al. to weane & to wontrede world buten ende. [cmancriw-1,II.231.3336] |
| to-+gederes | & of godes brude & his freo dohter. for ba to-ġederes ha is. bikimeđ þeow under mon. & his þrel to don al; & drehen þt him likeđ. ne sitte hit hire se uuele. [cmhali,130.35] |
| to-gedere | Đe hali apostel namneđ đese þrie haliġe mihtes to-gedere, fidem, spem, karitatem, [cmvices1,35.409] |
| togederes | Ase þu art ful of euch good, ase nis nan good wane þer as þeos þreo beođ, michte ant wisdom ant luue $ifeġet togederes, þet þu ġetti me, Hali Þrumnesse, i þe wurchipe of þe. " [cmancriw-1,I.62.201] |
| to-gederes | ah euer ha hefde on hali writ ehnen ođer heorte oftest ba to-gederes. [cmkathe,19.28] |
| togidere | and therfore for the knytting togidere of the heed to the membris, the scripture that spekith of oon, passith in the same knytting to-gidere of resoun to speke of the tother, as in xiiij. c=o=. of Isaie, where the scripture spekith of the king of Babilone, that was a membre of the deuil, it passith to speke of the prince of fendis, whanne it is seid there, " Lucifer, that rysidist eerly, hou feldist thou doun fro heuene; " [cmpurvey,I,55.2231] |
| to-gidere | and therfore for the knytting togidere of the heed to the membris, the scripture that spekith of oon, passith in the same knytting to-gidere of resoun to speke of the tother, as in xiiij. c=o=. of Isaie, where the scripture spekith of the king of Babilone, that was a membre of the deuil, it passith to speke of the prince of fendis, whanne it is seid there, " Lucifer, that rysidist eerly, hou feldist thou doun fro heuene; " [cmpurvey,I,55.2231] |
| togidre | This sacrement bitokneth the knyttynge togidre of Crist and of hooly chirche. [cmctpars,317.C2.1251] |
| togidrere | The firste reule is of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, and of his goostly body, which is holy chirche, for whi for the knytting togidrere of the heed to the body hooly scripture spekith sumtyme of euer either vndir oo resoun, as vndir oo persone, and passith fro oon to anothir, [cmpurvey,I,53.2159] |
| togidres | Þis ġere was so grete drowþe þat þre monþes togidres, Averel, May, and June, unneþe fel a drope of reyn doun to the erþe. [cmpolych,VIII,348.3757] |
| to-gidres | A gaderyng to-gidres of stable folk, þat ben in þe law of our Lord, blameþ þe sacrifice of ydolatries, þat hij þat ben of ryġt byleue shete out of her cumpainie hem þat maken maum-metries. [cmearlps,80.3477] |
| togyder | for truly the delytes of this worlde and the joyes of heven can never be togyder in one cote of thy soule. Wherfore yf thy cote of thy soule be ones hoole in vertue, without ony seme of vice, departe it never, but lete it retorne in sortem Domini, and contynewe thy lyfe in goodnesse without ony interrupcyon. [cminnoce,12.202] |
| togydre | Þe kyndam of heuene telluþ boþe togydre, Crist and his meyne, but Crist pryncipally; [cmwycser,373.2630] |
| unhendeliche | Ne $schal $neauer heorte þenche swich selchđe þt ich nule ġeue $for $þiluue vnmeteliche. vn euenliche. unhendeliche mare. [cmancriw-2,II.292.800] |
| unne+de | and forleten him unneđe liues. [cmtrinit,33.459] |
| unnea+de | & te ođre þe haldeđ ham unforgult. & cleane; beođ ase sikere unlusti & wlecche unneađe i godes luue. wiđ-uten euch heate of þe hali gast þe bearneđ se lihte. wiđ-vte wastinde brune in alle his icorene. [cmhali,161.475] |
| vnmeteliche | Ne $schal $neauer heorte þenche swich selchđe þt ich nule ġeue $for $þiluue vnmeteliche. vn euenliche. unhendeliche mare. [cmancriw-2,II.292.800] |
| vuel | and euere whon þou art vuel at ese, he com-forteþ þe. [cmedvern,243.147] |
| worldely | And for youre presumpcion to take uppon you in dedely synne for to be in Hys presence, where Hys fleyssh and Hys blood was, which caused you ye myght nat se hyt with youre worldely yen, [cmmalory,655.4473] |
| ylike | Loke whiche degrees ben ylike fer fro the hevedes of Cancer and Capricorne, [cmastro,673.C2.401] |
| zuo | Þanne yef þou wylt lyerny wel to libbe be uirtue: lyerne zuo ase ich þe habbe yzed |
Period=OE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $swa | Se Halga Gast cydde gecyđnysse $be Criste ærist þam apostolum on þære upflora, þa þa he on fyres gelicnysse befeng hi ealle $and $hy $ealle $onælde, $swa $swa $man $isen $deđ, $butan $ælcere $dare, mid $incundre lufe. [coaelhom,+AHom_9:130.1357] |
| +atg+adre | Đa gelomp æfter unmonegum gearum, þætte Penda Mercnacyning cwom mid Mercna here in þa stowe, & all þa đæ he meahte, mid iserne & fyres lege fornom & forleas, & swylce eac þone tun, þe se biscop in forđferde, ætgædre mid þa gemyndgedan cirican fyre forbærnde. [cobede,Bede_3:14.204.13.2075] |
| +dyllice | forđy þonne geonge cild and stiđe cnapan ođþe þa, đe hwonlice understandan magan, hu micel wite is and hu hefigtyme, þæt man on amansumunge sie, þa đyllice, þonne hy agyltađ, him man styre ođþe mid swiđlicum fæstenum, [cobenrul,BenR:30.53.20.659] |
| +tus | Moyses us bebead on þære æ þæt we sceoldon þus gerade mid stanum oftorfian; [cowsgosp,Jn_[WSCp]:8.5.6369] |
| ealswa | & forgilde mid ealswa godum þæt he þurh his gymeleaste amirde. [cochdrul,ChrodR_1:7.13.185] |
| gelice | swa he þa mid sođe gefylde, gelice swa he ær þa þrowunge dyde. [coblick,HomS_8_[BlHom_2]:17.34.211] |
| mistlice | He hælde blinde & deafe & dumbe & mistlice gebrocode [cowulf,WHom_7:51.416] |
| samad | & on þam teođan geare his rices mid þæs ælmihtigan Godes dome he forlet þæt rice samad mid his life. [cogregdh,GD_2_[H]:14.133.7.1296] |
| samod | and þær fleow ut blod and wæter samod; Þæt blod to ure alysednysse. and þæt wæter to urum fulluhte; [cocathom2,+ACHom_II,_12.1:116.219.2526] |
| somed | Þæs halgan fæder lif & muneces somed & bisceopes Sancte Cuþbertes ærest eroico metere & æfter fæce gerædeword ic awrat. [cobede,Bede_5:22.484.13.4855] |
| somod | On đone syx ond twentegđan dæg đæs monđes on þone dæg Crist reste dead on byrgenne for us ond his sawl somod ond his godcundnes somod [comart3,Mart_5_[Kotzor]:Ma26,A.1.469] |
| su+a | þa com sume dæge on ærmorgen to him an đara brođra, se wæs iu on Breotene Bosles discipul & đegn Gode þæs leofan sacerdes, mid đy he đa se ilca Bosel wæs regolweard in đæm mynstre in Mailros, under Eatan, þem abbude, suæ sue we beforan sægdon. [cobede,Bede_5:9.410.3.4118] |
| sua | ac he witgode sua sua hit geweorđan sceolde. [cocura,CP:1.29.10.120] |
| sw+a | Hwæt, se eower wela þonne & se eower anweald, þe ge nu weorđscipe hatađ, gif he becymđ to þam eallra wyrrestan men, & to þam þe his eallra unweorđost biđ, swa he nu dyde to þis ilcan Þeodrice, & iu ær to Nerone þæm $casere, & oft eac to mænegum hiora gelicum, hu ne wile he đonne don swa hi dydon & get dođ, ealle đa ricu þe him under biođ ođđe awer on neaweste, forslean & forheregian, swæ swa fyres leg deđ drigne hæđfeld, ođđe eft se byrnenda swefel đone munt bærnđ þe we hatađ Etne, se is on Sicilia đæm ealonde; swiđe onlic đæm miclan flode đe giu on Noes dagum wæs. [coboeth,Bo:16.34.20.628] |
| swa | We rædađ on þisum Drihtenlican symbeldæge þæt halige godspell be þæs Hælendes acennednysse, ægđer ge be his godcundnysse ge be his menniscnysse, swa swa Iohannes awrat þe her on life mid him on $his $hirede wunode, his modrian suna, [coaelhom,+AHom_1:1.2] |
| swaswa | & $mit $þe hit þa wunade on þere stowe swaswa tide fec swilce hit þunurrad were & he þa ymbhygdie mode spyrede hwet þet were. [cochad,LS_3_[Chad]:106.67] |
| swilce | Đær wæs þa gehende þam halgan mynstre swilce an halig stow swyđe gewurđod fram folces mannum, swilce đær martyres lagon; [coaelive,+ALS_[Martin]:341.6177] |
| swylc | þyslic me is gesewen, þu cyning, þis andwearde lif manna on eorđan to wiđmetenesse þære tide, þe us uncuđ is, swylc swa þu æt swæsendum sitte mid þinum ealdormannum & þegnum on wintertide, & sie fyr onælæd & þin heall gewyrmed, & hit rine & sniwe & styrme ute; [cobede,Bede_2:10.134.23.1301] |
| swylce | & þonne hie eđedon þonne eode him of þy muđe mid þy oroþe swylce byrnende þecelle. [coalex,Alex:18.9.209] |
| tog+adere | and cwæđ þæt he wolde wyrcan þa healle ærest on eastdæle and þa oþre gebytlu bæftan þære healle, bæđhus and kycenan, and winterhus and sumorhus, and wynsume buras, twelf hus togædere mid godum bigelsum; [coaelive,+ALS_[Thomas]:93.7604] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | |
| Middle English | ny|never|neauer|neođer|neuer|niþer|niđer |
| early Modern English | neuer|non|ne're|never |
| Modern British English |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| ne're | Tim. Lookes she like Death, and ne're a word made yet, I must goe beat my Braines against a Bed-post, And get before my Tutor. [middlet-e2-p2,64.631] |
| neuer | A meruelous case, that Ientlemen shold so be ashamed of good learning, and neuer a whit ashamed of ill maners: [asch-e1-p2,18R.187] |
| never | but nowe ther standeth never an howse but oonly ij towers, And Certeyne Caves vnder the grounde. [torkingt-e1-h,24.21] |
| non | The sam day was bered master Kyrtun, alderman and marchand tailler, and marchand of the stapull of Cales, a-for non. [machyn-e1-h,42.72] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| never | So natural is it to women to like a man that rattles and talks with assurance, though never so much from the purpose. [ryder-1716,164.102] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| neauer | Þe feont þe findeđ euch uuel bimong alle hise crokinde creftes wiđ neauer an ne kecheđ he creftiluker cangmen ne leadeđ to unbileaue; þen þt he makeđ men þt ahte to wite wel þt ha beođ biġetene & iborene ant ibroht forđ þurh þe heouenliche feader to makie swucche maumez of treo ođer of stan ođer þurh mare meadschipe of gold ođer of seoluer. ant ġeouen ham misliche nomen of sunne ođer of mone of wind & wude & weattres [cmkathe,22.53] |
| neo+der | & ne warp þu me nawt neođer in-to helle. [cmmarga,83.443] |
| neuer | This prosces of the iij. book of Kingis schulde stire kingis and lordis, to be mersyful and pytouse on her sugetis that trespasen aġens hem, and in alle thingis eschewe ydilnesse, leccherie, tresoun, ydolatrie, and false counceilouris and vnwyse, and euere distroie synne, and take counceil at hooly scripture and trewe prophetis, and triste not to false prophetis, be thei neuer so manye, and crie faste aġens oon either fewe trewe men. [cmpurvey,I,15.619] |
| never | And though he never so longe have leyn in synne, the mercy of Crist is alwey redy to receiven hym to mercy. [cmctpars,327.C2.1669] |
| ni+der | Eft hit seiđ đat hie stikđ niđer in to nielnesse mid here đohtes, for us eft to warnin wiđ đo stanroches of đe harde hierte đe næure ne wile nexin for none watere of wisdome, [cmvices1,45.501] |
| ni+ter | and hie brohte đane brihteste angel fram đare heuene heinesse niþer into helle depnesse. [cmvices1,5.37] |
| ny | This man killid ny þe þird part of Cristen men, not be his owne malice, but be stering of his councel. [cmcapchr,51.582] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | |
| Middle English | thries|first|fyrst|ærest |
| early Modern English | fourth |
| Modern British English | extra |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| fourth | They sing the fourth tyme. [udall-e1-h,L.330.239] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| extra | This being Captain Anderson's birth-day, we also had an extra bottle of champagne to its happy return, our party not having yet adopted the necessary abstemious habits of an Eastern climate. [montefiore-1836,139.135] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| +arest | & for þan God gyfđ þan gode mannen mihte, þt heo geforđigen þt god þt heo beginneđ, ærest for heom sylfen, & syđđen for ođren Godes þeowen, þt heo heom helpen, swa wel swa heo mugen, & eft for þan þt heo geletten þa lyđere mænn, þt heom ne onhagige ofer þan goden to yfeligen eall þt heo wolden, [cmkentho,142.211] |
| first | This was þe first Cristen emperour. [cmcapchr,57.748] |
| fyrst | The fyrst ij ġer whan þis creatur was þus drawyn to owyr Lord, sche had gret qwiete of spyryt as for ony temptacyons. [cmkempe,13.256] |
| thries | for Poules hed scippid thries aftir it was fro þe body, and at euery scip þere sprang a welle, þerfor is þat place clepid soo. [cmcapchr,50.541] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | |
| Middle English | nameli|nameliche|namely|namelye|namelych|nomely|namly|namliche |
| early Modern English | namely |
| Modern British English |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| namely | Then pleased it the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church, to send chosen men of their owne company to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas: namely, Iudas surnamed Barsabas, & Silas, chiefe men among the brethren, [authnew-e2-p2,15,20A.1008] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| namely | There is a Temper of Mind made up of, or which follows from all three, Fear, Hope, Love; namely, Resignation to the Divine Will, which is the general Temper belonging to this State; which ought to be the habitual Frame of our Mind and Heart, and to be exercised at proper Seasons more distinctly, in Acts of Devotion. [butler-1726,274.349] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| nameli | Sothly, ofte-timis it happins þat be þe ordinance of þe prioresse greuus sklaunders rysis in monesterys, whils þer be sum bownyd with þe wikkid sprete of pride, thinkis thame-selfe als gude os thayre abbes, And takis a-pon thame tyranry, and nurischis sclaunders, and makis dissensiones in þe conuente, And nameli in tha places where þe prioressse es ordande of þe same sistir, or of þe abbesse, whilk hase made be-fore þe abbas. Whilk inconueniens it es ethy to conseyue; [cmbenrul,43.1345] |
| nameliche | For ther nis nothing so late, in so schorte bowndes of this lif, that is long to abyde, nameliche to a corage immortel. Of whiche schrewes the grete hope and the heye compassynges of schrewednesses is ofte destroyed by a sodeyn ende, or thei ben war; [cmboeth,447.C1.357] |
| namely | And forther over, certes, pride is greetly notified in holdynge of greet meynee, whan they be of litel profit or of right no profit, and namely whan that meynee is felonous and damageous to the peple by hardynesse of heigh lordshipe or by wey of offices. [cmctpars,301.C2.519] |
| namelych | And þere ben also many wylde bestes & namelych of OLYFAUNTES. [cmmandev,131.3179] |
| namelye | For alle the paynes that cryste sufferde in his bodye schewyd to me in the blyssede faace als farfurthe as I sawe it, and namelye in the lyppes. [cmjulnor,53.109] |
| namliche | and þey alleyde for hem þat þe manere and þe usage of al holy chirche of Grees, of Italy, of Rome, of Gallia, and of Fraunce, schulde be i-sette to fore þe manere and custom and usage of a corner of þe worlde, þat knewe nouġt þe decrees of synodus, as it is no wonder, namliche while Iohn þe Evangelist in þe bygynnynge of holy chirche, þat was tho ġong and tendre, heeld þe ordinaunce of Moyses lawe, in meny þinges and folwede þoo the Iewes; [cmpolych,VI,99.698] |
| namly | Then, for God segh þis wikednes namly of þes synnys regnyng yn þe world, he sayde þus: ' Me forthenkyth þat I made man. ' Wherfor he sayde to Noye: ' All þe world ys enfect wyth synne so greuesly, þat I woll strye hit wyth a flod. Wherfor make þe a schyppe, as I woll teche þe, of planke-bordes, and make chambors þeryn, and take of all clene bestys þre coupull and on by hymself of all oþer vnclene bestys take on cowpull yn, and mete wyth hom. ' [cmmirk,72.1943] |
| nomely | For, as Seynt Austeyne saythe: ' When Cryst schuld be borne, þe world was so full of derknes of synful lyuyng, and nomely of syn of lechery, and of syn aġeyne kynde, þat had nye to haue laft to haue ben yborne of mankynd. ' Wherfor þat nyght þat Cryst was borne, all þat doden synne aġeyne kynd, deydyn sodenly þrogh all þe world, in schowyng how horrybly þat synne ys before Goddys een. [cmmirk,23.672] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | instepes|gio|fulhræđe|gyrstan|somne|lange|longe |
| Middle English | now|sone|anan|efter|anon|a-gain|aġeyne|anone|immediatly|before|bifore|byfore|nov|furst|befor|a-non|be-for|often|inmedyatly|syđđen|er|offte|anoon|onan|æfre|son|soone|aġen|forsayd|onane|nu|ferren|anaon |
| early Modern English | then|daily|now|often|presently|earely|sone|im~ediately|immediately|than|fyrste|nowe|after|formerly|already|incontynent|anon|incontinente|foorthwyth|immediatelye|incontinent|oftyn|last|presentely|shortlye|tomorowe|immediatly|$now |
| Modern British English | soon|early|again|once|quickly|nightly |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| $now | for $now $while she is not well minded, [thoward2-e2-p1,1,94.422] |
| after | after that I did sum busenes, [hoby-e2-p2,96.849] |
| already | I am telling you what I thinke should be, which if it were already in fashon I thinke I need not trouble you with such a discourse as this. [locke-e3-h,53.153] |
| anon | Anon after y=t= there cam a nother man that claymyd heuyn| & sayd to Seynt Peter he had had .ii. wyuys to whom Seynt peter a~sweryd and sayd come in [merrytal-e1-p1,42.277] |
| daily | And in those dayes when the number of the Disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrewes, because their widowes were neglected in the daily ministration. [authnew-e2-p2,6,1A.7] |
| earely | The 20. day of September earely in the morning we waighed ancor, [coverte-e2-p1,6.63] |
| foorthwyth | and that done, foorthwyth wente to horsebacke, [moreric-e1-h,18.26] |
| formerly | the stuffe is an excellent stuffe, and much worne, though formerly in fashion. [hoxinden-1640-e3-p1,114.109] |
| fyrste | that is to saye. Peter is called petra. bycause that he fyrste amonge the gentyles dyd establysshe the grounde of our fayth. [fisher-e1-h,1,319.105] |
| im~ediately | Im~ediately after this the addresse concerning His Grace of Buck~s was proposed, w=ch= begott a debate whether we should not in his case desire the concurrence of y=e= Lords in reguard he is a Peere, [aungier-e3-p2,170,A.16] |
| immediately | And surely that childe, what so euer he be, is well blessed and fortunate, that findeth a good instructour or maister: whiche was considered by noble kynge Philip, father to the great king Alexander, who immediately after that his sonne was borne wrote a letter to Aristotle, the prince of philosphers, the tenour wherof ensueth. [elyot-e1-p1,33.43] |
| immediatelye | But the protector immediatelye after diner, entending to set some colour vpon y=e= matter, sent in al y=e= hast for many substauncial men out of the city into the Tower. [moreric-e1-h,52.96] |
| immediatly | And for as longe tyme as they shall receyve Wag~ for theym this payment to be made unto the seid retynues and ev~y Souldeour of the same of theire Capteyns and Petycapteyns all ways within vj daies next and immediatly after that the seid Capteyn Petycapteyn or other $shall $have receyved theire Wag~ of the Kynge or of the Tresourer of his Warres or of theire Lord~ or Maisters. [stat-1500-e1-h,3,27.69] |
| incontinent | Howbeit some dout & many thinken, that Penker was not of counsel of the mater before the coronacion, but after the comen maner fell to flattery after: namely sith his sermon was not incontinent vpon it, but at S. Mary hospytall at the Ester after. [moreric-e1-p2,59.173] |
| incontinente | But incontinente after that they were oppenlye with greate courtesye departed, and the Lorde Riuers lodged, the Dukes secretelye with a fewe of their moste priuye frendes, sette them downe in counsayle, wherin they spent a great parte of the nyght. [moreric-e1-h,17.13] |
| incontynent | And incontynent after that seyynge dyed before he was confessed or repentant that ony man could perceue| [merrytal-e1-h,31.150] |
| last | Tom. Oh sad, how Drunk was I last night, [penny-e3-h,270.572] |
| now | And whereas the vii. Planets called the wandring starres, doe change their places now here now there, that chanceth not by their owne moouing, but by the moouing of the heauens wherin they are placed: [blundev-e2-p2,159V_misnumbered_as_158V.321] |
| nowe | And nowe of late it is a greate practes of the upright man, when he hath gotten a botye, to bestowe the same upon a packefull of wares, [harman-e1-p1,60.87] |
| often | For certes the wyll often tymes embraseth death, when that causes co~pelleth the same, whiche death nature feareth. [boethco-e1-h,80.511] |
| oftyn | and greate cheare I had, with many welcomys; and oftyn tymes dronke to, bothe by the shyryffe hymselve and the reste hys freendys. [mowntayne-e1-p1,195.415] |
| presentely | presentely after the receipte of your letter I met with Mr. Newman in Fish Streete, unto $whome I remembred your love [pettit2-e2-p2,40.18] |
| presently | and when into this mixture presently after it was made, we shook a just Proportion of Aqua Fortis, we turn'd it from a Black Ink to a deep Red one, which by the affusion of a little Spirit of Urine may be reduc'd immediately to an Opacous and Blackish Colour. [boylecol-e3-p2,143.23] |
| shortlye | Shortlye herevppon, master Riche, afterwardes Lord Riche, then newlye made the kings Solicitor, Sir Richard Sowthwell, and one master Palmer, servaunt to the Secretory, were sent to Sir Thomas Moore into the Tower, to fetche away his bookes from him. [roper-e1-h,84.73] |
| sone | For sone after the begynnyng of the citie there hapned to be a great erth quaue, [elyot-e1-h,153.150] |
| than | Whan the rumour of this murder was blowen abowte the cytie, anon Lewys, vncle vnto the kynge, and than kynge of Scecyle, the dukys of Berry and of Burbon with other, drewe thyder, [fabyan-e1-p1,560.94] |
| then | and would kneele downe, and bid God blesse her majestie meaning, indeede, the then queene, whom he heard Sir William Hollis, his maister, so much to pray for. [armin-e2-h,8.7] |
| tomorowe | " Then in good faith is there no more differens betweene your grace and me, but that I shall dye today, and yow tomorowe. " [roper-e1-p2,72.53] |
Period=MBE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| again | landed again at a River two Leagues West of the Rock Alcatraz, [cooke-1712,1,443.377] |
| daily | - I was contented to amuse myself, during the many idle hours I had now to spend, with observing the crew busy at their daily occupations of cleaning or repairing the ship. [montefiore-1836,165.485] |
| early | And that he may be more useful in life, and consequently more happy, his parents and teachers should take all possible pains to form his mind in his early years, and to enforce their admonitions by a proper discipline. [chapman-1774,32.60] |
| immediately | As I think it proper that two Chapters shou'd be learn'd every Day, according to the fore-going Method, so I wou'd have Boys, immediately after they have learn'd to decline Nouns and Verbs, taught no other Book for some Time, but the New Testament, because, for the Reasons already alledg'd, I look upon it to be the best Book for them to begin with. [anon-1711,20.206] |
| nightly | In some of the narrow streets, the people had not yet risen from their nightly resting-place- the ground, with no other covering than a piece of mat or a cloak. [montefiore-1836,146.219] |
| once | for I have got such a Pain in my Huck-bone, that when I am once set, I $can $n't get up again. [davys-1716,24.48] |
| quickly | and died abroad with the British Forces in Germany, quickly after the Battle of Hochstet, through the Fatigues he underwent in the Duties of that celebrated Campaign. [doddridge-1747,5.29] |
| soon | The following composition proved of excellent use in that most tedious kind of chronic rheumatism, which often attacks young females soon after the age of puberty; and is attended for the most part with stiffness and swelling of the ancle and knee joints. [bardsley-1807,13.107] |
| then | My Father being at this time employ'd at Chattsworth in Derbyshire, by the then Earl of Devonshire, who was raising that Seat from a Gothick, to a Grecian, Magnificence, I made use of the Leisure I then had, in London, to open to him, by Letter, my Disinclination to wait another Year for an uncertain Preferment at Winchester, and to entreat him that he would send me, per saltum, by a shorter Cut, to the University. [cibber-1740,36.45] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| +afre | & siđđen he spedde æfre leong þe bet. [cmpeterb,44.101] |
| a+gen | In his comynge aġen from Rome, in þe twentiþe ġere of his kyngdom, he spousede Iuditha þe douġter of Charles þe ballede, [cmpolych,VI,317.2327] |
| a+geyne | and siþen, at þe comyng aġeyne of þe Saxoynes, þai recouerede þis lande, [cmbrut3,59.1721] |
| a-gain | bot siþin wite sho wel es tare na cuming a-gain. [cmbenrul,23.788] |
| anan | & for þi dauit anan efter þt he haueđ iefned ancre to pellican. he efneđ hire to nicht fuwel þt is under euesunge. [cmancriw-1,II.113.1421] |
| anaon | Ac bidde we alle ure lauerd Crist, đe was hersum his fader anon to đe deađe þat, al swo we forlieseđ đis scorte lif đurh unhersumnesse, đat he us ġiue mihte đat we moten him bien hersum on alle gode woerkes anaon to đe deađe, [cmvices1,9.71] |
| anon | anon ase þe zaule him todelþ. al þe uayrhede þet |
| a-non | Ande that same yere, a-non aftyr Crystysse masse, was be-heddyd at Sussetyr the Erle of Kentt, and the Erle of Saulysbury, and the Erle of Oxynforde, and Syr Thomas Blounte, and Syr Raffe Lumney, Syr Benet Cely, knyghtys, and Syr Thomas Wyntyrsylle, sqwyer; [cmgregor,102.96] |
| anone | and Vter anone after þat bataile tok his way toward Wynchestre $forto done entier Aurilambros kyng, þat was his broþer; [cmbrut3,64.1934] |
| anoon | Therfor anoon as he cesside to speke, the erthe was brokun vndur her feet, [cmotest,16,20N.748] |
| befor | We rede sayth saynt Jerom in old storyes. many men haue soughte ferre countrees. straunge nacyns. & passid ryght peryllous sees |
| be-for | and thenne come the prosessyon solempny and stately, whithe xxiiij copys of clothe of golde by-fore Goddys body, whythe many worschipfulle lordys, knyhtis, and squyers, and othyr multytude of pepylle from þ=e= kyngys tente, solempny and stately as evyr was done suche a thyng be-for tyme. [cmgregor,110.346] |
| before | þeese þre ben so couplid to-gedir, þat vnto hem þat ben biginners & profiters- bot not to hem þat be parfite, ġe, as it may be here- þinkyng may not goodly be getyn wiþ-outyn reding or heryng comyng before. [cmcloud,71.250] |
| bifore | For what tyme þat a soule disposeþ him effectuely to þis werk, þan as fast sodenly- vnwetyng him-self þat worcheþ- þe body, þat parauenture bifore er he bygan was sumwhat heeldyng donwardes on o syde or on oþer for ese of þe flesche, by vertewe of þe spirit schal set it vpriġt, folowyng in maner & in licnes bodely þe werk of þe spirit þat is maad goostly. [cmcloud,113.549] |
| byfore | Byfore er man synned, was ymaginacion so obedyent vnto þe reson- to þe whiche it is as it were seruaunt- þat it mynystrid neuer to it any vnordeynde ymage of any bodely creature, or any fantasy of any goostly creature. [cmcloud,117.605] |
| efter | And yef hi spekþ bisye wordes of ham þet zuo bleþeliche telleþ tidyinges. þet zetteþ ofte hare herte to mesayse of ham þet his yhereþ. and makeþ þe efter telleres ofte by $yhyealde foles and uor lyeġeres. [cmayenbi,58.1058] |
| er | onforward þos cristendomes ech man leornede his bileue er he fulht underfenge. [cmlamb1,73.29] |
| ferren | Đis woreldes biwest is efned to wastene; for þat þe hit is ferren atleien holie tilđe. Hinc ex quo ueteres emigrauere coloni. Aure seđđen þe ealde tilie henne wenden. [cmtrinit,161.2187] |
| forsayd | And this booke is maad for nede and prouffyte of alle god folke |
| furst | And he was bore in the furst spryngyng of the daye, [cmedmund,164.10] |
| immediatly | and seid he schuld not answere in þis maner but to þe bischop of Cauntirbyri, whech was his juge immediatly vndir þe pope. [cmcapchr,149.3487] |
| inmedyatly | Morally the state of man inmedyatly after synne was verely the state of childehode and infans havinge no nouryce. [cminnoce,6.65] |
| nov | Our Lord kepe þin entre and þin yssu fram þis nov vnto þe world. [cmearlps,156.6991] |
| now | Bote now, suster, let vs aryse and walke ennys. [cmaelr3,45.568] |
| nu | Ah nu þu hauest se wel iseid of euch-a setnesse; of þe seli sunderlepes sumhwet sei us nu hwuch blisse is to alle iliche meane; [cmsawles,182.232] |
| offte | | Forr þatt he wollde fesstnenn wel | | Þiss trowwþe i þeġġre brestess, | | He let te posstless sen himm wel | | Well offte siþe onn erþe, | | Wiþþinnenn daġġess fowwerrtiġ | | Fra þatt he ras off dæþe. | [cmorm,DED.L229.49] |
| often | And for by cause charyte is parfyght yf it be extendyd as well to the ende of the lyf as it is the lyf self, I wolde they sholde ende ther lyf in that holy waye the whyche often tymes I radde whan that I was Querester, in the Marteloge of Poules, where many holy bodyes deyed, callyd in Latyn Via Tiburtina: in Englysshe asmoche to saye as the highe waye to Tyburne. [cminnoce,4.44] |
| onan | & weax on lengþe up onan to þam| wolcne, [cmpeterb,42.18] |
| onane | and if it semyd as for a tym þat þou sulde qwenche þe cole with þi stykkes, neuer-þe-lesse, when þou hase habedyn a while, and after blawes a lyttill, Onane sprynges a grete flawme of fyre, [cmrolltr,32.681] |
| son | for hit wæs ful cuđ ofer eall land þet swa radlice swa he þær com- het wæs þes Sunendæies þet man singađ " Exurge, quare obdormis, Domine? "- þa son þærfæfter þa sægon & herdon fela men feole huntes hunten. [cmpeterb,50.240] |
| sone | Sone after this he fonde rest for a tyme, [cmaelr4,12.313] |
| soone | Under Constantyn and Yrene soone after me þu schalt i-see. " [cmpolych,VI,271.1979] |
| sy+d+den | & for þan God gyfđ þan gode mannen mihte, þt heo geforđigen þt god þt heo beginneđ, ærest for heom sylfen, & syđđen for ođren Godes þeowen, þt heo heom helpen, swa wel swa heo mugen, & eft for þan þt heo geletten þa lyđere mænn, þt heom ne onhagige ofer þan goden to yfeligen eall þt heo wolden, [cmkentho,142.211] |
Period=OE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| fulhr+a+de | & þa fulhræđe đæs ic cleopode to him [coboeth,Bo:22.50.8.914] |
| gio | Hwæt, þu gehyrdest þætte gio dagum gelomp þæt an swiđe wis mon & swiđe rice ongan fandigan anes uđwitan & hine bismrode, forđæm he hine swa orgellice up ahof, & bodode þæs þæt he uđwita wære. [coboeth,Bo:18.45.4.799] |
| gyrstan | for hwon wiþsæcst þu þæs þe þu eart geacsod, þu þe gyrstan æfenne to þon gelæded wære, þæt þu mid þinre bradre hand þa nunnan ofer hire eaxle þaccodest? [cogregdc,GDPref_and_3_[C]:7.190.10.2409] |
| instepes | Hwæt we gehyrdon þæt þæt fasten þyses feowertiges daga ongunnen wæs instepes þæs þe he of þæm fulwihte astag, & þa eode sona on þæt westen; [coblick,HomS_10_[BlHom_3]:35.142.463] |
| lange | Ond naht lange æfter hire þrowunge heo ætywde hire yldrum on midde niht þær hi wacedon æt hire byrgenne, [comart3,Mart_5_[Kotzor]:Ja21,A.16.203] |
| longe | Đa noht longe æfter þissum đa geuntrumade Godes se leofa Eadberht bisceop, [comart3,Mart_5_[Kotzor]:My6,A.30.763] |
| somne | Spiwedrenc, hofan & onred & ellenrinde, gecnua to somne, ellen læst, [colaece,Lch_II_[2]:52.4.8.3271] |
| Period | Variants |
| Old English | |
| Middle English | wes|a|þa|onre |
| early Modern English | trewelie|promiscuously|anone|thyn|withall|newe|new|cholmly |
| Modern British English |
Period=eModE
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| anone | Anone as kyng Henry was crowned, and y=e= solemnitye of the feest of Eester was passyd, he sent vnto y=e= fryers of Langley, where the corps of kynge Richarde was buryed, [fabyan-e1-p2,577.101] |
| cholmly | And here I met with, sealed up, from Sir H. Cholmly, the Lampoone or the Mocke=advice to a Paynter, abusing the Duke of York and my Lord Sandwich, Pen, and everybody, and the King himself, in all the matters of the Navy and Warr. [pepys-e3-p1,7,407.114] |
| new | for thys ys one of our new brochyd bretheryn that spekethe agayenste al good workes. " [mowntayne-e1-p1,181.85] |
| newe | I wyll make thee to synge a newe songe or thow and I have done, [mowntayne-e1-p1,181.73] |
| promiscuously | Mr. Pepys & my selfe examining him not in any method, but by promiscuously questions, which required judgement & wonderfull discernement, to answere things so readily & pertinently: There was not any thing in Chronologie, Historie, Geographie, The several systemes of Astronomers, Courses of the starrs, Longitudes, Latitudes, doctrine of the Spheares, Sourses & courses of Rivers, Creekes, harbors, Eminent Citties, staples, boundaries & bearings of Countries, not onely in Europe but any other part of the Earth, which he did not readily resolve & demonstrate his knowledge of, readily drawing out, with his pen any thing that he would describe: [evelyn-e3-h,898.63] |
| thyn | The fenbrede is a thyn borde, pynned or nayled moste commonly to the lyft syde of the shethe in the ferther ende, and to the ploughe-tayle in the hynder ende. [fitzh-e1-p1,11.46] |
| trewelie | For he knoweth, that Nobilitie, without vertue and wisedome, is bloud in deede, but bloud trewelie, without bones and sinewes: and so of it selfe, without the other, verie weeke to beare the burden of weightie affaires. [asch-e1-p2,13V.79] |
| withall | for indeede the more is the pitty they doe grow so farre from any passage of water, and withall in such rockie Mountaines, that no way to conuey them is possible to bee passable, either with Boate, Horse, or Cart. [jotaylor-e2-h,1,137.C1.246] |
Period=ME
Examples of this type and period:
| Category | Example |
| +ta | | & Moysæs all dide þa | | Swa summ himm Drihhtin tahhte, | [cmorm,II,252.2536] |
| a | | & icchedd himm a litell upp | [cmorm,I,282.2315] |
| onre | and Mast alle þe hund limen hersumieđ þe onre wombe. [cmtrinit,181.2492] |
| wes | and seodđan he com on þisse middelert; he sette his mildheortnesse laġe ouer us. and ouer al moncun. þet wes þaġh we suneghie nu on þisse liue ne scal us na mon uuelien þer uore. [cmlambx1,15.168] |