Noun: rede
Sample Sentences
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Ophelia:
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
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Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
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Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
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Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
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And recks not his own rede. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:]
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When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede" [1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:]
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‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’ [1954, JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers:]
Nouns inflected like rede
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English red, rede, from Old English rǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *rād, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz.
2. Cognate with Danish råd, Dutch raad, German Rat, Swedish råd, Norwegian Bokmål råd. Indo-European cognates include Old Irish rádaid (“to speak, say, tell”). Doublet of rada. See: Middle English Nouns '
red', Danish Nouns '
råd', Dutch Nouns '
raad', German Nouns '
Rat', Swedish Nouns '
råd', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
råd'.
Verbs referencing "rede"
German Nouns
Rat, Danish Nouns
råd, German Nouns
Rede.