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clepe

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5 lettersPronunciation /kliːp/Sorted ceelpStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To give a call; cry out; appeal.

Word origin

From Middle English clepen, clepien, from Old English cleopian, clipian (“to speak, cry out, call, summon, invoke, cry to, implore”), from Proto-Germanic *klipōną (“to ring, sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *gal- (“to sound”). Cognate with Old Frisian klippa, kleppa (“to ring”), Dutch kleppen (“to toll, chatter”), Middle Low German kleppen (“to strike, sound”), Middle Low German kleperen (“to rattle”).

Used in a sentence

  • She clepes him king of graues, & graue for kings, / Imperious ſupreme of all mortall things.
  • See Borneo's sea-girt shore where ever flow / the perfumed liquor's thick and curded gouts, / the tears of forest-trees men "Camphor" clepe, / wherefore that Island crop of Fame shall reap.
  • You tried to mentor someone, teach them the basics of the trade, and they ran off to clype on you.

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