ETYMOLOGY
from French reniant, pres. pple. of renier (to deny, renounce)
EXAMPLE
“… No helpe to me wardes is shapen: howe shal than straungers in any wyse after socoure loke, whan I that am so privy yet of helpe I do fayle? Further maye I not but thus in this prison abyde: what bondes and chaynes me holden, lady, ye se wel yourselfe? A renyant forjuged hath not halfe the care. But thus syghyng and sobbyng, I wayle here alone, and nere it for comfort of your presence, right here wolde I sterve. …”
From:
The Testament of Love
By Thomas Usk, 1388
In The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed. 1532
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