Spitously

Spit´ous`ly


adv.1.Spitefully.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Moreover, she never describes her behaviour as cruel whereas Chaucer's Alisoun claims to scold her husbands "spitously" [cruelly] (224).
Dubbing chaucer and beenie man: Jean "Binta" Breeze's re-presentation of "Afrasporic" women's sexuality
She depicts herself as a scold who would regularly chide her husbands 'spitously' (l.
Chaucer's Wife of Bath and John Fowles's Quaker Maid: tale-telling and the trial of personal experience and written authority
The blood of the Savior, who is "ragged and rente" on the "rode," has been "spitously spilte" in order "to bringe vs to blis/Full free" (36/304, 306-08).
Suffering and the York plays
His bloode to spille Toke ye you tille, [??]us was youre wille Full spitously to spede he were spilte.
Seeing and hearing; looking and listening
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