avisunkes (s.xii1/3)
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avisunkes (s.xii1/3)

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[ FEW: 14,26b umquam; Gdf: 1,532c avisonkes; GdfC: ∅; TL: 1,744 avisonques; DEAF:  onque (avisonque); DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
avisonc,  avisonqes;  avisunches,  avisunques,  avisuunchus  

adv.

1scarcely, hardly, barely: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  qui ceste piere prendra […] Sacez si forment s’en quira Que avis unques en guarra  210.186
( 1113-19; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Avisunches pot estre Que il unches seit prestre Se il ne set chest librarie […]  63
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Fud fort iver […] Avisunkes [rien] garisseit, [Hume ne femme], aver ne beste Del fort iver  1958
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  avisonc poet sentir la paine (=of pestilence) Neguns oem ainz ço qu’il finisse  930
ne ... avisunkes
1never: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  li ours […] cop d’espee ne d’espier Avisonc ne poet redouter  11817
ne ... avisunkes u jamés
1rarely or never: 
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  si l’eschine est plaié d’entravers […] a vis u unchus (l. avisuunchus?) u jamais ne creum qu’il puisse estre garri par cirurgie  i 81
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