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surquidry

surquidry is the alternative form of surquedry.

Meaning of surquedry

Noun

surquedry (countable and uncountable, plural surquedries)

  1. (obsolete) Overweening pride; arrogance.
    • They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in...1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 31, pages 370–371

Questions about surquidry

What is surquidry the alternative form of?
Surquidry is the alternative form of surquedry.

Words near surquidry in the dictionary

  1. surprizing
  2. surquedous
  3. surquedries
  4. surquedry
  5. surquedy
  6. surquidry
  7. surra
  8. Surratt
  9. Surratts
  10. surreach
  11. surreached

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