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Meaning of stiffe | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of stiff.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“My hands are so stiffe and nummie, that I can hardly write for my selfe, so that what I have once scribled, I had rather frame it anew than take the paines to correct it; and I reade but little better.”
“if he finds not good ſtore of vailers , vailers, hee comes home ſtiffe and ſeer”
“Thus alſo the wounded members are moſt hardly cured, when by much effuſion of blood and ſpirits they are become ſtiffe and benummed.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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