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congees

congees is the plural of congee.

Meaning of congee

Noun

congee (countable and uncountable, plural congees)

  1. Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly)
  2. (obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
  3. (obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
    • So courteous conge both did giue and take,
      With right hands plighted, pledges of good will.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  4. (obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
  5. (Scotland, obsolete) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
  6. (archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
    • As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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Questions about congees

What is congees the plural of?
Congees is the plural of congee.

Words near congees in the dictionary

  1. congee
  2. congee house
  3. congee houses
  4. congeed
  5. congeeing
  6. congees
  7. congeing
  8. congelation
  9. congelations
  10. congelative
  11. congelifract

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