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[prave] (s.xii4/4)

[prave] (s.xii4/4)

prava  
  FEW:  pravus 9,336b Gdf:  prave 6,365c GdfC: TL: prave 7,1697 DEAF:  prave  DMF:  prave  TLF: OED:  prave a.  MED: DMLBS:  pravus 2446a

According to the Oxf Ps1 edition, the word, only occurring in Paris, BN, Lat. 768, seems to have retained its Latin -a ending there. Short’s newer edition, Oxf Ps ants, does not provide any variant reading for this line.

a.

morally corrupt, depraved
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Que il ne seient fait sicume li peres d’els, generaciuns felunesse e enasprissante (var. (P: s.xii4/4) generatiun prava)  Oxf Ps1 105.LXXVII.10 (var.)

[gdw]

See also:

praver  pravité 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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