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deboneireté (1212)

deboneireté (1212)

deboneirité,  deboneirté;  debonaireté,  debonairetee;  debonairté,  debonairtee,  debonearté;  debonereté,  debonerté,  debonierté,  deboneurté;  debenierté,  debonnereté  
  FEW:  ager 25,1320b / area 1,134b Gdf: GdfC:  debonnaireté 9,277c TL: debonaireté 2,1237 DEAF:  debonaire (debonaireté)  DMF:  débonnaireté  TLF:  débonnaireté  OED:  debonairty, debonarity n.  MED:  debonairete  DMLBS:

s.

1humility, meekness
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Al premer, pur aver parfit Covient povreté d’esperit; A l’autre covient deboneurté Aver en bone volunté  Lum Lais ANTS 7285
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  As temptacions foreines si covient pacience, ke est deboneireté ou suffrance apelee  Ancren2 256.7
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  les grandes humblesces et debonairteez qe nous trovons uncore en lui (=J.C.)  Sz Med1 37
horsesequit.obedience
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Un soef amblant palefroi Lui envoiot tot sanz deloi Qui tant fut soef e privé Qe por sa grant deboneirté Lui selt sa muillier chevalchier  Dial Greg SATF 8316
2(act of) goodness, kindness
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Bien le devum servir a gré, Quant par sa sule debonearté Sanz desertes nus ad jeté Dei mal  S Modw 5086
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  pur bien voler concupiscence, Malice pur deboneirté  Lum Lais ANTS 2533
( 1289 ) jo ay enveé [...] un messager a pé a lettres, e nennay uncore nul respons, pur quei jo crey certeinement ke luy reys se avise, e ke il en fra aukune deboneireté, la quele jo desir plus a oir [...]  Reg Peckham 968
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  qe le donour ne remeigne povere et besoygnous par tiele debonereté  BRITT i 227

See also:

boneireté 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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