1abstinence, discipline of forbearance:
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
Une semblance ad ci posee Ki en abstinence est notee
4500
(
c.1275;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
le graunt reddur De abstinence ke […] Soleyt tenir austerement
2440
(
c.1300;
MS: s.xivin
)
[…] glotonie de manger e de beyvre. E cele est estanché par dormir e par abstinence
ii 168
(
s.xivin;
MS: s.xiv1
)
Par abstinence son cors demeyne Privément mit en peyne
63.73
♦
mil.truce, suspension of hostilities:
(
1361
)
mettont avant les lettres [...] tesmoignanz et contenauntz qe loiaulx trewes et abstinences sount prises entre les dites roialmes
4
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