1captivity:
(
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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chaitiveté (s.xii1)