"Hende": A Handy Middle English Adjective.

Description: Clarifies the "nuanced semantic versatility" of "hende" in romances and fabliaux, with particular attention to MilT and "Dame Sirith," showing how various connotations obtain in differing contexts, and suggesting that editors "might apply distinct glosses to each of the eleven instances of the word applied to Nicholas" in MilT, "including a blend of positive, negative, physical, conceptual, and inverse meanings."