Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete form of proof.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Proof.

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  • noun Obsolete form of proof.

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Examples

  • Kurt, over at Return to Comics, has started reading comics again after having been out of the game for twenty-five years except for a prief daliance with Image ca. 1993, and Zilla, Comics Junkie comes back into the fold after a 15-year hiatus.

    Returning to Comics David S. Carter 2005

  • Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with as great discreetly as we can.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 2004

  • Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with as great discreetly as we can.

    Act I. Scene I. The Merry Wives of Windsor 1914

  • Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note - book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with as great discreetly as we can.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor 1597

  • Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause with as great discreetly as we can.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590

  • _ Fery goot: I will make a prief of it in my note-book; and we will afterwards ork upon the cause 130 with as great discreetly as we can.

    The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590

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