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arvaire (c.1170)

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arvaire (c.1170)

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FEW: arbitrium 25,87b Gdf: arvoire 1,416a GdfC: ∅ TL: arvoire 1 1,557 DEAF: avir (*) DMF: auvoirie TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: arbitrium 116c

arvair, arveir, arvere, arveire, arvir, arere, arowere 12 Rich II 144 (var.), arvele 1079

s.

1doubt, uncertainty:

( s.xiii^1/3; MS: s.xiii^m ) Tel duel ne veistes femme faire: Ses dras depecer […] De sa vie ert grant arvaire 7746

( s.xiii^2/4; MS: s.xiii² ) Li angle […] si li tolt arveir e dute 7326

2illusion, figment of the imagination:

( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv¹ ) Ceo que hom veit, ceo deit hom crere, Kar ceo n’est par sunge ne arveire 78

(estre) en arvaire

1(to be) doubtful, uncertain:

( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) E si ne sui pas en arvaire Que l’en n’i truisse bone gent 404

( 1214; MS: 1214-16 ) Lors fut G. en grant arvaire Desquant soi vit en tel destreit 428

( s.xiii^2/4; MS: s.xiii² ) Asquanz erent en arveir, Mais Deu a un mustra le veir 5788

( 1318; MS: s.xv ) en arere (l. awer?) et (ms. en) noun certein 244

sanz arvaire

1undoubtedly:

( 1214; MS: 1214-16 ) ço sereit, tot sanz arvaire, A l’evangile apert contraire 2683

al mien arvaire

1in my opinion:

( c.1170; MS: s.xiii^ex ) Un autre (=anel) en porterez, meillor al mien arvir (var. (O,H: s.xiii^m,s.xiii^m) avir) 2053

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