Obs. [ME. evelté: see EVIL a. and -TY, and cf. everlastingty. Substituted in a late MS. of the Cursor Mundi for vileté, the reading of the Cotton MS. in both passages.] Evil, harm.
c. 1330. Assump. Virg., 280, in Cursor M., App. ii. Þerof be þi most þouȝt, When I am parted Iohan, fram þee, That þei do my bodi none euelte [sic MS.; printed eneste]. Ibid., 439. Men dide me moche euelte … thei token me & bette me sore.
