And so in playne wordes they repreued without fauour the vyces of the sayd yl disposyd peple of what condicion or order they were: Of this auncient wrytinge of Comedyes our laten Poetes deuysed a maner of wrytinge nat inelegant.
Wylling to redres the errours and vyces of this oure royalme of England .
For right so as languissinge is maladye of body, right so ben vycesand sinne maladye of corage.
But this is the fortune,' quod she, 'of hem that either ben put 30 in vertu and batailen ayeins aspre thinges, or elles of hem that eschuen and declynen fro vyces and taken the wey of vertu.
For thee have I my nece, of vyces clene, So fully maad thy gentilesse triste, That al shal been right as thy-selve liste.
But certainly, the most complaynte of alle Is for to thinke, that I have been so nyce That I ne wolde no virtue to me calle 15 In al my youthe, but vyces ay cheryce.
For al vyces trewly I hate; vertues and worthinesse in al my power 145 I avaunce.
And therfore, he that 130 wol ben gentil, he mot daunten his flesshe fro vyces that causen ungentilnesse, and leve also reignes of wicked lustes, and drawe to him vertue, that in al places gentilnesse gentilmen maketh.
I rekene flaterye in the vyces of Ire; for ofte tyme, if o man be wrooth with another, thanne wol he flatere som wight to sustene him in his querele.
It avayleth eek agayn the vyces of the soule; for, as seith seint Ierome, 'By fastinge been saved the vyces of the flesh, and by preyere the vyces of the soule.
To a povre man men sholde hise vyces telle, But nat to a lord, thogh he sholde go to helle.
Thow seyst, we wyves wol ourvyces hyde Til we be fast, and than we wol hem shewe; Wel may that be a proverbe of a shrewe!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vyces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
