felynge
Middle English
Alternative forms
- felunge, fielinge, velinge
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfeːlinɡ/
Noun
felynge (plural felynges)
- feeling
- c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:
- Al is ylyche goode to me / Ioy or sorowe wherso hyt be / For I haue felynge in no thynge / But as it were a mased thynge / Alway in poynt to falle a down
- Everything is equally good to me— / Joy or sorrow, however it might be— / For I feel nothing about anything (literally, “I have feeling in nothing”), / But am like some dazed thing, / Always on the brink of falling down.
- c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r:
References
- “fẹ̄ling(e, ger.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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