dreare

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A form of drear — Dreary.

Scrabble 7

Meanings

adjectivedreare (comparative more dreare, superlative most dreare)

comparative more dreare · superlative most dreare

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of drear.
noundreare (plural dreares)

plural dreares

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of drear.

    She thankt him deare / Both for that newes he did to her impart, / And for the courteous care which he did beare / Both to her love and to her selfe in that sad dreare.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Chicago

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