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Lydgate

[ lid-geyt, -git ]

noun

  1. John, c1370–1451?, English monk, poet, and translator.


Lydgate

/ ˈlɪdˌɡeɪt /

noun

  1. LydgateJohn?1370?1450MEnglishWRITING: poetRELIGION: monk John. ?1370–?1450, English poet and monk. His vast output includes devotional works and translations, such as that of a French version of Boccaccio's The Fall of Princes (1430–38)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It is a disgrace to our two universities that no modern edition of Lydgate has been published.

In fact, the indiscriminate riming of close and open e is a capital test for Lydgate and for work of the fifteenth century.

Beginning with ioy, endyng in wretchednes'; Lydgate, Falls of Princes, bk.

This word is as old as Lydgate's time: among his works, quoted by Warton, is a poem "translated from a pamflete in Frenshe."

Would he do voluminous Lydgate the justice which, as the specialist knows, has so long been withheld from him?

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