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adjective
- (obsolete) near, Near, close at hand, handy.
- (obsolete) courteous, Courteous, gracious.
- Late C14: Oure Hoost í¾o spak, "A, sire, ye sholde be / And curteys, as a man of youre estaat" " Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Friar's Prologue", Canterbury Tales (OUP 1988, p. 122)
- C14: And if he were so and so wis / í�at she ne myÈ�t al abate his pris, / Yit wolde she blame his worí¾ynesse / Or by hir wordis make it lesse. " Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose (OUP 1988, p. 689-90)
Etymology: Old English gehende, Äehende.
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