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[acuintance] (s.xiiiin)

[acuintance] (s.xiiiin)

acointance,  aquaintaunce,  aqueintance,  aqueyntaunce,  aquointaunce  
  FEW:  accognitus 24,77b Gdf: GdfC:  acointance 8,24c TL: acointance 1,92 DEAF:  acoint (acointance)  DMF:  accointance  TLF:  accointance  OED:  acquaintance n.  MED:  aqueinta(u)nce n.  DMLBS:

s.

acquaintance, dealings
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  vaut plus […] de estre loyns des grantz seignours […] qe de aver trop aqueyntance  BOZ Cont 69
friendship
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  qi est trop chargé de chateux […] ou de deners, quierge l’amur de felun seignur e sa aquoy[n]taunce  BOZ Cont 113
intimacy, close relationship
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Ja nel (=his dead friend) puissez vus tant amer Ke vus ne truissez assez sun per, Si vus ussez le acointance Ke entre vus fust [e] l’aliance  Pet Plet ANTS 1613
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  E si il (=a suitor) voyle lesser lour aqueyntaunce (=of old loved ones), par taunt cest un signe ke il vus eyme plus ke nul autre  Am curt 53.119
prendre acuintance
to encounter, make the acquaintance of
( c.1365; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  vous face a savoir qe pur l’acointance quelle je pris a court de tiel monseignur […]  SAMPS1 371

See also:

acuinte  acuintement  acuinter  cointance 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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