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avilance (1155)
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avilance (1155)

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avillance  
  FEW:  vilis 14,448a Gdf:  avilance 1,527b GdfC: ∅ TL: avilance 1,734 DEAF:  vil 1 (avilance)  DMF:  avilance  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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shameful, despicable words or action: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  il pria nostre Seignur Que de cele grant desenur E de cele orrible avilance Ait en els signe e remembrance  Brut WACE 13729
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  'Guillaume,' dit Boton, 'tu diz grant avillance, Encor n'i as feru d'espee ne de lance Et ja t'en veuls fuir'  Rom de Rou wace i 63.1428

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aviler 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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