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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[OF.

cherté

. See

Love; tender regard.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

See also: chierté

chierte ‎(uncountable)

(obsolete) love; tender regard
(Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
- Thomas Mallory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XIII, Chapter VIII:
  When the queen, ladies, and gentlewomen, wist these tidings, they had such sorrow and heaviness that there might no tongue tell it, for those knights held them in honour and chierté.