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chaitiveté (s.xii1)

chaitiveté (s.xii1)

caitifetee,  caitiveted,  caitivited,  caitivetet;  chaitifveté,  chaitivetet,  chaitivité,  chaitivitet;  cheitifté,  cheitiveté,  cheitivetee,  cheitivité;  chetiveté;  chitiveté;  keitifté,  keitiveté  (cheiftee,  chaitifneté (l. chaitifveté)  Serm Rawlinson 527)  
  FEW:  captivus 2/i,330a Gdf:  chaitiveté 2,38a GdfC: TL: chaitiveté 2,172 DEAF:  chaitif (chaitiveté)  DMF:  chétiveté  TLF:  chétif  OED:  caitifty n.  MED:  caitifte n.  DMLBS:  captivitas 275c

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1captivity
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Convertis, Sire, la nostre caitivited sicume ewe en austre  Oxf Ps ANTS 122.125.5
( c.1200; MS: c.1220-40 )  A tel servage, a tel chitiveté Quatre cent anz e plus i unt (=the Jews in Egypt) esté  Anc Test (E) 1492
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ceste passion soeffri […] por nous reyndre e delivrer de l’enfernal chetiveté  Mirour Egl 37.15
2misery, wretchedness, anguish
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 ) Tu beneisquis, Sire, la tue terre, desturnas la caitivited de Jacob  Oxf Ps ANTS 93.84.1
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Estampes a destruite et le bourc a gasté Et toute la terre mise en chetiveté  Rom de Rou wace i 41.750
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Pur requere la benuree […] Ke la garisse […] De ceste tresgrant cheitiveté (=insanity)  Mir N-D 133.102
( 1343-50 )  son poeple mult destrut de graunt cheitiveté et myseyse  Cron Lond1 45.13
( s.xiv2; MS: c.1400 )  Celui cheiftee ou tribulacion (Latin: miseria vel tribulacio) quel nous suffroms  Lichfield 56
weakness, lack of strength
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  keitivetez Cume unt ore li enfant Ki de ren ne se sunt aidant  Lum Lais ANTS 2112
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