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Webster 1913 Edition


Pardie

{

Par-de′

,

Par-die′

}
,
adv.
or int
erj.
[F.
pardi
, for
par Dieu
by God.]
Certainly; surely; truly; verily; – originally an oath.
[Written also
pardee
,
pardieux
,
perdie
, etc.]
[Obs.]
He was,
parde
, an old fellow of yours.
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


pardie

pardie

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Alternative forms

Interjection

pardie

  1. By God!
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
      Perdy,” (said Britomart) “the choise is hard; / But what reward had he that overcame?”