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circumstance (1267)
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circumstance (1267)

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circumstaunce;  circounstance;  sercunstaunce  
  FEW:  circumstare 2/i,706b Gdf:  circonstance 2,138b GdfC:  circonstance 9,97b TL: circonstance 2,439 DEAF:  circonstant  DMF:  circonstance  TLF:  circonstance  OED:  circumstance n.  MED:  circumsta(u)nce n.  DMLBS:  circumstantia 345b

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circumstance: 
( 1320 )  […] & des autres circumstances touchantes la bosoigne  Rot Parl1 i 380
( c.1340; MS: s.xiv2 )  vous empry […] qe de tote ycelle circumstance vous voilliez diligialment enquoere  Cist Form 317.25
( 1393-94 )  toutz les circumstances et causes del reverser  Rot Parl1 iii 314
♦circumstance, adjunct of act or fact: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Les circumstances seient ostés, E de fornicaciun plus parlez  Lum Lais ANTS 3565
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Kar pecché put estre aggregé Sulum ceo k’umme ad dignité E circumstances ensement  Lum Lais ANTS 10253
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Entour pecché sunt trovez set circumstances ke le coverent. Ceo est asaver persone, quei, liu, tens, manere […]  Ancren2 72.16
( 1407 )  Pour lesquelles choses ovesque leur circounstances monstrer plus au plain a vostre excellente seignourie nous envoions pardevers ycelle Johan Pikeryng  Roy Lett Hen IV ii 191
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