Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Middle English form of
keen .
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Examples
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P p/s: xpeah kene jahit. penah luka teruk dua kali kat kepala, tapi xjahit..sy superhero, ada spontaneous regeneration:P
that's not my fault! 2009
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And love is to myne herte gone with one speare so kene.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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It's something she hasn't met much because the right kind of fairytales give me the heebie jeebies and I'm not terribly kene on the whole deal.
A chailín bhig mo chroí, conas a phósfhainnse thú? ailbhe 2008
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Sena se bolela hore re tshwanetse ho dumela ka botlalo motheo wa ho re re kene mokgatlong ka boithaopo mme re se na maikemisetso a mang a ho ithuisa, jwalo ka Kano e bolela.
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And summe ther ben, that gon on pilgrimage to this ydole, that beren knyfes in hire hondes, that ben made fulle kene and scharpe; and alle weyes, as thei gon, thei smyten hem self in here armes and in here legges and in here thyes, with many hydouse woundes; and so thei scheden here blood, for love of that ydole.
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This year, the "enemy" are not vipers, but a deadly kind of tick (kene in Turkish), which has already made victims north and south of the site, but which fortunately was not yet encountered at Sagalassos proper.
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And summe ther ben, that gon on pilgrimage to this ydole, that beren knyfes in hire hondes, that ben made fulle kene and scharpe; and alle weyes, as thei gon, thei smyten hem self in here armes and in here legges and in here thyes, with many hydouse woundes; and so thei scheden here blood, for love of that ydole.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And he boded hu {65} þe deouelen shulen pleien wid him · mid hare sharpe eawles · Skirmin wid him abuten · ⁊ dusten as a pilche [p. 132] clut · Euch toward oþere · ⁊ wid helle sweordes asnesen þurh ut þat beod kene ⁊ eateliche keorwinde pinen.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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+N+is non so strong. ne sterk. ne kene. þat may ago deþes wyþer blench.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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On me hit is wel isene. vor riȝte cunde ich am so kene. vor {} þi ich am loþ smale foȝle. þat floþ bi grunde an bi þuuele.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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