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[raisunableté] (s.xiii2/4 (?))

The form raisnableté is a cross reference to the following entry:

[raisunableté] (s.xiii2/4 (?))

renableté,  resonableté  
  FEW:  ratio 10,110b Gdf:  raisnableté 6,566a GdfC: TL: raisnableté 8,208 DEAF:  raison (raisnableté)  DMF:  raisonnableté  TLF: OED:  reasonability n.  MED: DMLBS:  rationabilitas 2660c

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1eloquence, articulateness, proficiency in argument
( s.xiii2/4?; MS: s.xiv2 )  Sire Dieu, jeo reconuise qe jeo ai esté orguillous e surquiders [...] de force, ou de beauté, ou de sen, ou de renableté de parler [...]  Confess 573.7
( MS: s.xiii )  in verbis quere leporem: renableté  TLL i 127
2lawright to take reasonable estovers
( 1343 )  C'est nostre several boys, sanz ceo qe vous avez cele resonableté [...] tenaunts de tout temps  YBB 17 Ed III 315

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See also:

raisun  raisunable  raisunablement  raisunal  raisunement  raisuner 
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