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violence (1214)

violence (1214)

 

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1violence
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Tot a force e a violence De s'abbeie lui traist fors  S Greg 691
2violence, harshness
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  De avarice nessent [...] mau repos, violence e duresse de quor  Mirour Egl (A) 8.33
( MS: s.xv )  oygnetz la playe deus fez ou treis de popilion pur aswager la violence de realgar  Five Med MSS 139.E258
3act of violence
( 1323 )  confederacions [...] de mal faire [...] ou nules autres violences faire countre la pees  King’s Bench iv 134
( 1337 )  et les gardent et defendent de par nous de toutes forches, griés, injures, molestes et violences  Treaty Rolls ii 18.18
4violation
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  ... nostre pes enfreynte par fresche force, sicum est de homme a tort engitté ou desturbé de la peysible possessioun de soen fraunc tenement. Et cel violence est apelé disseisine  BRITT i 212
( 1347 )  si mes ditz executours soient distourber [sic] d'acompler ma dite volunté par tiels violences et occupacions de mes ditz biens  Test Ebor i 45
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violence