Emperice

Em´per`ice


n.1.An empress.
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The first attested borrowings are countesse 'the wife of a count or an earl' and emperice 'the consort of an emperor' from the Peterborough Chronicle.
On some French elements in early middle English word derivation
but because it is ultimately rewarded, not just by good luck but as a matter of deliberate judicial policy, with a lifetime of "parfit joye" (1258), which the ravisher obtains in the company of a wife who is both obedient and as beautiful "As any lady, emperice, or queene" (1246).
Exploitation and excommunication in The Wife of Bath's Tale
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