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Webster 1913 Edition
Wray
Wray
(rā)
, Verb.
T.
[AS.
wr[GREEK]gan
to accuse. See Bewray
.] To reveal; to disclose.
[Obs.]
To no wight thou shalt this counsel
wray
. Chaucer.
Definition 2024
wray
wray
See also: wraþ
English
Alternative forms
- wreye (obsolete)
Verb
wray (third-person singular simple present wrays, present participle wraying, simple past and past participle wrayed)
- (obsolete) To denounce (a person).
- (obsolete) To reveal (a secret).
- Late 14th century: no thyng dorste he seye, / Save in his songes somwhat wolde he wreye / His wo — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- (obsolete) To betray.