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amordre (s.xiiiin)
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amordre (s.xiiiin)

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p.p. amors  
  FEW:  admordere 24,170b Gdf:  amordre 1,275b GdfC: ∅ TL: amordre 1,366 DEAF:  mordre (*)  DMF:  amordre  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.refl.

to seek to, be keen to: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Il les veut partant chastier Que ne se amordent a pechier  S Clem ANTS 8182
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  E me voille, sachez, amordre De combatre pur fin amur  Bonté batt (U) 14

p.p.

attached (to), keen (on): 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiiex )  Ore voil eser  (ed. [a]eser) mun cors De femme dunt jo mi sui amors  Mar Couplets 110
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  As seremenz sunt si amors Ke einz k’il volent rien mustrer Forment cumencent a jurer  Mirur1 167vb34
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