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confermement (1155)
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confermement (1155)

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confirmament,  confirmement;  cumfermement,  cunfermement  (conferment)  
  FEW:  confirmare 2/ii,1036a Gdf:  confermement 2,232a GdfC: ∅ TL: confermement 2,673 DEAF:  confermer (confermement 1)  DMF:  confermement  TLF: ∅ OED:  confirmment n.  MED:  confermement n.  DMLBS:  confirmamentum 433b

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1strengthening, confirmation: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  En bien furunt tut confermez, Ke peccher ne vulent ne ne purrunt Pur le confermement k’il unt  Lum Lais ANTS 1314
2confirmation, affirmation, ratification: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  nostre arcevesque [...], Ki ad sun sié a Karliun Par le cunfermement de Rome  Brut WACE 13845
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Par escrit de cumfermement  ADGAR3 180.542
( 1330 )  A la peticion des cyteins […] de avoir confermement de lur franchises  Rot Parl2 211
♦law(deed of) confirmation: 
( 1320 )  par chartres de ses progenitours […] et par conferment de meisme le roi  Rot Parl2 87
( 1330 )  quele chartre est confermee par faits (=deeds) des rois, sicome piert par le transescript des ditz confermementz cosuz a ceste bille  Rot Parl2 187
( 1334 )  nent contreesteaunt nule fait (=deed) ou confermement avaunt fait  Percy Ch 297
( 1346 )  la chartre la reigne et le conferment du roi  YBB 20 ii Ed III 107
3eccl.liturgicalconfirmation, sacrament that confirms one's Christian belief previously established through baptism: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Le seme (=seventh sacrament) est confirmation u confermement, ke conferme le Seint Esperit en homme baptizé  Mirour Egl 36.4
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Le quel est greyndre sacrament, baptesme ou confirmement  Lum Lais ANTS 9120rubr
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