Noun: meritote
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What eylith you, some gay gerl, God it wote / Hath brought in you thus on the meritote. [1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, line 662:]
Nouns inflected like meritote
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)
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