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covenableté (s.xii1)
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covenableté (s.xii1)

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cuvenableté  
  FEW:  convenire 2/ii,1128a Gdf:  covenableté 2,346a GdfC: ∅ TL: covenableté 2,976 DEAF:  covenir (covenableté)  DMF:  convenableté  TLF: ∅ OED:  covenablete n.  MED:  covenablete n.  DMLBS: ∅

s. pl.

suitable occasion, opportunity: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ne covenableté ne defaut pas, quant humaine pensers sunt fait plus orgeilousement e nient cointement ou fieblesse  vegetius2 120.17
♦good times: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  E faiz est li Sire refuges al povre, ajuere en cuvenabletez, en tribulatiun  Oxf Ps ANTS 46.9.9
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