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Preve

Preve \Preve\, v. i. & i. To prove. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Preve

Preve \Preve\, n. Proof. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Usage examples of "preve".

How should a judge either party believe, For yea or nay, withouten any preve?

Well ought we, then, to honour and believe These bookes, where we have none other preve.

And after that she of hir swough gan breyde, Right ibn hir hsukes ledene thus she seyde: "That pitee renneth soone in gentil herte, Fellynge his similitude in peynes smerte, Is preved al day, as men may it see, As wel by werk as by auctoritee.