blemure (s.xii2)
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blemure (s.xii2)

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  FEW:  *blesmjan 15/i,157a Gdf:  blesmure 1,661c GdfC: ∅ TL: blesmure 1,1000 DEAF:  blesmir (blesmure)  DMF:  blêmure  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
blemeure,  blemmeure;  blesmeure,  blesmure,  blemesure  32  

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1blemish of injury, disfigurement: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  ne fud en sun cors nule blesmure ne nule mesfaçun  84
( 1255-59; MS: s.xiv1/4 ) li escoler Son bras ad sein, bel et enter, Sanz dolur et sanz blemure, Ne parut nes sursaneure  655
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Une petite blesmeure en le oil greve plus ke ne fet une grant pointeure eu talon  212.7
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  le fist gettre en un fourn ardaunt de flaume mes par Cristiens fu estret sanz blemure  195.24
♦blemish of damage, ruination: 
( c.1229 )  qe toutes les fraunchises avauntnomees soient gardees saunz blemure  i.xxiv
( c.1241; MS: s.xiii2 )  mes possessions neent mobles gardez enters e saunz blemure  390
2theol.stain, blemish (of sin): 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1 )  Kar sa char fu nette e pure; De peché ne aveit nule blemure  172
( MS: s.xiiiex )  litura: blemure  i 53
( MS: c.1300 ) Jhesu en vus se mist E de vos sanz blemure humaine char prist.  66r
blemure de conscience
1heavy, bad conscience: 
( 1321 )  nous priastes a grant instance en consaillant pur bien de pees et pur blemure de conscience qe nous les (=judgements) vuoloms faire repelercome choses faites contre ley  ii 376
( 1395; MS: s.xv1 )  lour empriantz d’executer [...] sanz blemure de conscience noz priers  170.114.20
blemure del cors
1bodily disfigurement: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  De dentz moellers ne de l’orayle ne del nees n’en ert counté nul maheyn, mes blemure del cors  i 123
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  [...] sicom usure, deseisine, blemure del cors, desheritesoun  74
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