misease
AmericanEtymology
Origin of misease
1150–1200; Middle English misese < Old French mesaise. See mis- 1, ease
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There were they a while of time in great misease, and so long that the son of the Count was much sick, insomuch that the Count and Messire Thibault had fear of his dying.
From Old French Romances by William Morris
In this wise the maiden bewailed her lot, by reason of her great misease.
From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason
He called to his table such good knights as were in misease, by reason of prison or of war.
From French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie de France
And they went on, all an-ned as they were, till they came to where Geoffry, the Marshal of Champagne, was keeping guard in the rear, in very great anxiety and misease.
From Memoirs or Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffroi de Villehardouin
But after a while Ralph said: "If it were no misease to thee to tell me how thou didst fall into the hands of the men of Utterbol, I were fain to hear the tale."
From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris
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