eggement
Middle English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛɡ(ə)mɛnt/, /ˌɛɡ(ə)ˈmɛnt/
Noun
eggement (uncountable)
- The process of egging on or enticing; instigation or incitement.
- (Can we date this quote?), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, pages 5240–5279:
- Mother, quod she, and maydenbright Marie, Soth is, that thurgh womannes eggement Mankind was lorne, and damned ay to die
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
- “eggement, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-05.
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