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arvaire (c.1170)
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arvaire (c.1170)

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arvair,  arveir,  arvere,  arveire,  arvir  (arvele  Dermot2 1079)  
  FEW:  arbitrium 25,87b Gdf:  arvoire 1,416a GdfC: ∅ TL: arvoire 1 1,557 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  auvoirie  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  arbitrium 116c

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1doubt, uncertainty: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Tel duel ne veistes femme faire: Ses dras depecer […] De sa vie ert grant a.  Gui War 7746
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Li angle […] si li tolt arveir e dute  Mirur3 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  S Edm Life ANTS 78
en arvaire
doubtful, uncertain: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  E si ne sui pas en arvaire Que l’en n’i truisse bone gent  Dial Greg SATF 404
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Lors fut G. en grant arvaire Desquant soi vit en tel destreit  S Greg 428
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Asquanz erent en arveir, Mais Deu a un mustra le veir  Mirur3 5788
sanz arvaire
undoubtedly: 
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  ço sereit, tot sanz arvaire, A l’evangile apert contraire  S Greg 2683
al mien arvaire
in my opinion: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Un autre (=anel) en porterez, meillor al mien arvir (var. (O,H: s.xiiim,s.xiiim) avir)  Horn 2053

See also:

avir  awer 
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