absoluement (s.xii2)
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absoluement (s.xii2)

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  FEW:  absolvere 24,55a Gdf:  absolutement 1,38b GdfC:  asoluement 8,205a TL: absolu (absolüement) 1,67 DEAF:  absolu (absoluement)  DMF:  absolument  TLF:  absolument  OED:  absolutely adv.  MED:  absolutli adv.  DMLBS:  absolute 8c
 

adv.

1 absolutely, not in relation to anything else: 
( s.xii2; MS: c.1200 ) Si fait a noter qu'il dist absoluement 'del fil'. qu'i[l] ne dist ne 'de men fil', ne 'del ten fil', ne del nului fil, mais simplement 'del fil'  132.9
♦ absolutely, completely, without any qualifications or restrictions: 
( 1363 ) [...] en confermans pleinement et absoluement le dit traité, senz aucunc mutation  iii 694
( 1401 ) Le quel Wautier pour toute response eust simplement et absoluement denie le dit libelle  ii 600
( 1410 )  et que sanz ce que icelle deliverance soit absoluement et plaignement fait  ii 279a
absolu  absolution  absolver  assoudre 
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