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clerement (c.1275)
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clerement (c.1275)

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clairement,  clarement;  cleirement,  clerment;  clierement,  clierment  
  FEW:  clarus 2/i,743a Gdf:  clerement 2,151a GdfC:  clerement 9,108b TL: ∅ DEAF:  cler  DMF:  clairement  TLF:  clairement  OED:  clear adj, adv. and n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

adv.

1clearly: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Lumer ke tuz clerment Alumina  S Fran ANTS 808
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  clierement nen oient mie  Pop Med 158.282
( 1360-61 )  lesquelles (=safe conducts) vous pourriez clarement veare  Bretigny 8.7
( 1389-90 )  je die clerement q’il n’ad forsqe fee taille  YBB 13 Rich II 30
♦clearly, obviously: 
( 1388 )  il semble clerement qe […]  YBB 12 Rich II 1
( 1404 )  la quelle deffense ne nous semble pas avoir esté faicte du costé de vostre dit seigneur; et se faicte a esté, il appert cleirement que ses subgez l’ont mal tenue  Roy Lett Hen IV i 363
2honestly, sincerely: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  ausi sovent com eus ou eles de Deu voleint penser clerment e nettes prieres fere  Ancren2 239.4
( 1376 )  il ne se poait clerement excuser q’il ne les (=taxes) avoit issint levez & coillez, & ent pris devers luy partie  Rot Parl1 ii 325
3finan.completely, without deduction: 
( 1349-50 )  Doné al encresse du dit almoyne clerment en or et en argent […] .xl. marcz  Goldsmiths 32
( 1397 )  de ceo que […] serra recovorez [sic] vueille […] que […] le Roy ait le tierz denier de ceo que […] en serra recovorez [sic] par mes executours, et clierment receu outre les coustages et expenses  Test Ebor i 232
( s.xiv-xv )  le pleintif recovera riens mes ceo q’est trové due clerement par enquest, c’est assaver, le seingle deuté  YMB ii 149
( 1415 )  aprés noz dettes clerement paiez et les tortes et injuries […] amendez et greez  Reg Chich ii 72
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