ampleté (s.xii1)
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ampleté (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  amplus 24,487b Gdf:  ampleté 1,280a GdfC: ∅ TL: ampleté 1,373 DEAF:  ample (ampleté)  DMF:  ampleté  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
ampletet,  ampleteit 309.295  

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1geog.wide, open place: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  E forsmenat mei en ampletet (Latin: Et eduxit me in latitudinem)  51.17.22
2 width, extensivess: 
( s.xii2; MS: c.1200 ) les bestials homs, qui nient n'entendent a Deu mais a lor ventres [...] qui nient ne muntent al mund de bones ovres, einz vunt espatiant par l’ampleté et par la largece de lur volentez  131.237
ample  ampleis  amplement 
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