Definitions
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- adverb Alternative form of
somedeal . In some measure or degree;somewhat ,partly ,partially
Etymologies
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From Middle English sumdel, see below
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Examples
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[I] ch am murðes sonde. ⁊ munegunge of eche lif. ant liues luue i {} haten ⁊ cume riht from heouene þ̵ ich habbe isehen nu ant ofte ear {220} þe blisse þ̵ na monnes tunge ne mei of tellen. þe iblescede godd iseh ow offruhte. ⁊ sumdel drupnin of þ̵ fearlac talde of deað.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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This manner, he writes, is since the great pestilence (1349) "sumdel i-chaunged," and to-day, in the year 1385, "in alle the gramere scoles of Engelond, children leveth Frensche and construeth and lerneth an
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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