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avantance1 (s.xiii2/4)

avantance1 (s.xiii2/4)

avauntance,  avauntaunce;  avuauntaunce  
  FEW:  vanitare *14,156a Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF: DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

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pej.boasting, bragging
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  par lur fole avantance Cheent en greignur encumbrance  Mirur1 141va21
( MS: s.xiii )  iacta[n]cia: avauntaunce  Gloss Garland 169
( MS: s.xiii2 )  ia(n)ctancia: avuauntaunce awauntaunce?  TLL i 36
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  de buche pecche humme par orguil, par avantance  Pecchez 208va
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  il treent enz le vent du los du mond, e derechief ové veine avantance le resofflent hors  Ancren2 41.25
pej.arrogance
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Inobedience e Avanta[n]ce Descort e Poie de Suffrance  Lum Lais ANTS 3111
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