chaitiveté (s.xiiiin)
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chaitiveté (s.xiiiin)

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[ FEW: 2/i,330a captivus; Gdf: 2,38a chaitiveté; GdfC: ∅; TL: 2,172 chaitiveté; DEAF:  chaitif; DMF:  chétiveté; TLF:  chétif; OED:  caitifty n.; MED:  caitifte n.; DMLBS: 275c captivitas ]
chaitivetet,  chaitivité,  chaitivitet;  cheitiveté,  cheitivetee,  cheitivité;  chaitifveté,  cheitifté;  chetiveté,  chitiveté;  caitifetee,  caitivited;  keitiveté,  keitifté,  cheiftee,  chaitifnetéchaitifveté  527  

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1captivity: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiiim )  A tel servage, a tel chitiveté Quatre cent anz e plus i unt (=the Jews in Egypt) esté  (E) 1492
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ceste passion soeffri […] por nous reyndre e delivrer de l’enfernal chetiveté  37.15
2misery, wretchedness, suffering: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Pur requere la benuree […] Ke la garisse […] De ceste tresgrant cheitiveté (=insanity)  133.102
( 1343-50 )  son poeple mult destrut de graunt cheitiveté et myseyse  45.13
( s.xiv2; MS: c.1400 )  Celui cheiftee ou tribulacion (Latin: miseria vel tribulacio) quel nous suffroms  56
♦weakness, lack of strength: 
( 1268; MS: c.1300 )  keitivetez Cume unt ore li enfant Ki de ren ne se sunt aidant  2112
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