Obs. Forms: 4 frendelyhede, 5 frendle-, frendlihede, frendlyhead, -hed(e, -hode. [f. FRIENDLY + -HEAD, -HOOD.] Friendliness, friendship.
1393. Gower, Conf., II. 286.
| That as by wey of frendelyhede | |
| She can so kepe her womanhede. |
a. 1420. Hoccleve, De Regimine Principum, 958.
| In mukke is alle this worldes frendlyhede; | |
| My gost is wrappede in an hevy drede. |
c. 1440. Generydes, 5170.
| Telle me, doughter, of very frendlehede, | |
| What Sygrem seid, and what his massage was, | |
| And as longith to my womanhede. |
1481. Earl Worcester, Tulle on Friendsh. (1530), A v. I truste that the frendlyhode of Scipio with Lelyus shalle be knowen to all them whiche shal come aftir us.
