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abstinence (c.1136-65)
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abstinence (c.1136-65)

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abstinance,  abstenence;  apstinence;  astinence;  atenance  
  FEW:  abstinentia 24,57a Gdf:  astenance 1,457c GdfC:  astinence 8,219a TL: astenance 1,611 / astinence 1,612 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  abstinence  TLF:  abstinence  OED:  abstinence n.  / abstinency n.  MED:  abstinence n.  DMLBS:  abstinentia 10a

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abstinence, discipline of forbearance: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Une semblance ad ci posee Ki en abstinence est notee  Salemon 4500
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  le graunt reddur De abstinence ke […] Soleyt tenir austerement  S Fran ANTS 2440
( c.1300; MS: s.xivin )  […] glotonie de manger e de beyvre. E cele est estanché par dormir e par abstinence  A-N Med ii 168
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Par abstinence son cors demeyne Privément mit en peyne  boz Seven Poems 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  Admiralty Case 4
abstinence de guerre
mil.truce, suspension of hostilities: 
( 1297-98 )  come s[u]ffraunce ou abstinence de gu[e]rre seit acordé e fait entre nous  Treaty Rolls i 134
( 1384 )  certeines trieues et abstinences de guerre accordez entre nous et […]  Rot Scot ii 64
estre en abstinence
to practise abstinence: 
( MS: s.xv )  pur ceo devoms nous estre en plus astinence e plus costraindre noz chars en ceus jours (=Fridays) qe en autres jours de la semaigne  Five Med MSS 157.E422
sanz abstinence
without respite: 
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  Qu'est ce pur quei si fort te lance Crueaument et sanz abstinance?  Ross ANTS 928
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