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controvure (s.xii3/4)
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controvure (s.xii3/4)

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contrevere,  contreveure,  contrevoure,  contrevure,  controveure,  contruveure,  contruvure;  cuntrevure,  cuntrovure,  cuntruvure  
  FEW:  *tropare 13/ii,318b Gdf:  controveure 2,284b GdfC: ∅ TL: controveüre 2,813 DEAF:  controver (controveüre)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  contrevure n.  MED:  contrevure n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1creation, imagination: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Ceste reule dedenz n’est pas fete de contrevoure de homme  Ancren2 164.3
2fiction, fabrication, lie: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Veillard, vos i mentez! Cestes controveures […] comparez  Rom Chev ANTS 7051
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Chançon de geste e d'estoire [...] n’est rien fors controvure  Mirur2 9
( MS: s.xiii )  stropha .i. figmentum vel adinventio gal. contrevure  Vernac Glosses 42
( 1275 )  ne de contier fause novele ou controveure  Stats i 35
3fake: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  (An idol) Par engin est cuntrefait en entaille u peinture; Semblance est e fausseté, purpens e cuntrevure  S Aub 598
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ben purporta la mustraunce (=Francis’s stigmata) Ke ben preyst garde e meyst cure. Ne pout pas estre contreveure  S Fran ANTS 6228
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