Dictionary Entry

eke

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/iːk/Used In Literature ↓

(obsolete except Britain) An addition.

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Common Phrases

. ekeeke anythingeke something

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Poetry examples for “eke”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Right then, there passen by the way
His aunt, and eke her daughters tway.
Ducke in his trowses hath he hent,

a, sudden a eke re of , alliterative compound
words is noticeable. . “point-painte work-wan,” * -

Some laugh'd a little; she forsook the place;
And, mad with shame, did eke her glove forget,
Which she return'd to fetch with bashful grace;

For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
"Not so," (quod I) "let baser things devise

Wherein I long'd the neighbour town to see,
And eke ten thousand siths I bless the stoure
Wherein I saw so fair a sight as she:

But riper age such pleasures doth reprove:
My fancy eke from former follies move
To stayed steps; for time in passing wears,

And with them eke, O Goddesse heavenly bright,[*]
Mirrour of grace and Majestie divine,

PIERS. Cuddie, the praise is better than the price,
The glory eke much greater than the gain:
O what an honour is it, to restrain

To God, and so to his religion.
There must thou fashion eke a godly zeal,
Such as no carpers may contrare reveal;

for I myself shall like to this decay,
and eke my name be wiped out likewise.
Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise,