Noun: chierte
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Yet tikled it his herte, for that he (Yet it tickled his heart, for he
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Believed that I had of him so great affection.) [late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 395-396]
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Whanne the Quene ladyes & 20 gentilwymmen wyſt theſe tydynges / they had ſuche ſorowe & heuyneſſe that ther myght no tonge telle hit / for tho knyghtes had hold them in honour and chyerte [1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum Octauum”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XIII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 311, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 621:]
Nouns inflected like chierte
contemplaunce,
giltines,
wordes of tocome,
busihead,
meritote,
aqua vite,
paradys,
Pendragon,
smokynge,
medkniche,
noblesse,
smattrynge,
fidelite,
tolysnysse,
unmanhood,
chierte,
cranage,
cronyng,
tolætenysse,
capcioun, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French cherté. Compare charite.
Translations