Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
little .
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Examples
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Her æfter fyligð an lytel cwyde be gearlicum tidum þæt nis to spelle geteald ac elles to rædenne þam ðe hit licað.
Archive 2008-06-01 Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Her æfter fyligð an lytel cwyde be gearlicum tidum þæt nis to spelle geteald ac elles to rædenne þam ðe hit licað.
Little-known literature: Aelfric's Prof. de Breeze 2008
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Englishmen have but a lytel while gone won that Yle from the
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And thare fore I telle you schorttely, how a man may goon with lytel costage and schortte tyme.
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For thare groweth lytel goude of corne or wyn, ne benes ne pese: but beestes ben thare y nowe, and that ful grete plente.
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For on the Saturday, hyt renneth faste; and alle the wooke elles, hyt stondeth stylle, and renneth nouzt or lytel.
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And from Jaffe men goon to the cytee of Rames: and that ys but lytel thenne, and hyt is a fayre cytee.
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And thare fore I telle you schorttely, how a man may goon with lytel costage and schortte tyme.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And from Jaffe men goon to the cytee of Rames: and that ys but lytel thenne, and hyt is a fayre cytee.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For thare groweth lytel goude of corne or wyn, ne benes ne pese: but beestes ben thare y nowe, and that ful grete plente.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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