dolven
English
Verb
dolven
- (obsolete) past participle of delve
- 1534, Erasmus, chapter I, in Leonard Cox, transl., The paraphraſe of Eraſm[us] Roterdame vpon [the] epiſtle of ſai[n]t Paule vnto his diſcyple Titus […] , London: Iohan Bydell:
- And my cōmyſſyon is not to call them to faith onely / but also to ye knowleg of trueth which among the gentyles was ouerheaped & doluen in the imagynacyons […]
- 1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “IV: A Journey in the Dark”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1), →ISBN:
- […] and they were oppressed by the loneliness and vastness of the dolven halls and endlessly branching stairs and passages.
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔlvən
Middle English
Verb
dolven
- past participle of delven
- c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 82, recto, lines 5280-5281; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 167:
- ac he was ded ⁊ doluen · as dere god wold / ⁊ alphouns held in his hond · holli al þe reaume […]
- But he was dead and buried, as dear God wanted, and now Alfonso had the entire realm firmly under his control […]
- c. 1360, John Mandeville (accredited), The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- for he smote so strongly and so hard himself in that rock, that all his body was dolven within through the miracle of God.
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- 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess:
- I had be dolven everydel, And ded, ryght thurgh defaute of slep.'
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- 1483, William Caxton, The Golden Legend:
- And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory .
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