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guiler en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English giler, gylur, gylour, gilour, from Old French guilëor, equivalent to guile + -er.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) A deceiver, a beguiler.
   • But he was wary wise in all his way, And well perceived his deceitful sleight, Ne suffered Lust his Safety to betray; So goodly did beguile the Guiler of the Prey 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • And þow hast gyuen hire to a gyloure · now god gyf þe sorwe. c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
   • The devil is the arch-trickster — who tricked Man with the apple in Eden — and in the 'guiler beguiled' model God beats him at his own game with the ultimate 'trick', or paradox of the God–man Jesus. 2017 June 14, Beatrice Groves, Literary Allusion in Harry Potter, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 63:

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