confortable (1155-60)
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confortable (1155-60)

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  FEW:  confortare 2/ii,1044b Gdf:  confortable 2,235c GdfC: ∅ TL: confortable 2,684 DEAF:  conforter (confortable)  DMF:  confortable  TLF:  conforter  OED:  comfortable a. and n.  MED:  comfortable a.  DMLBS:  confortabilis 436a
counfortable  

a.

1emotioncomforting: 
( MS: 1155-60 )  Le saint neis confortable Esperit (Latin: paraclitum Spiritum)  282.13
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Deus dunat le confortur, ço est l’esperit confortable  9559
( MS: c.1300 ) Le confortable Seynt Espirit Ke od mei seit nuit e jur E me tienge en vostre amur, Ke me doynt conseil sanz delay  205r
♦emotionencouraging: 
( 1407 )  dount je ne suy unqore parmy nulle vostre ordeignance ne counfortable repouns sieurz d’aucun aide ne remede pour en les ditz meschiefs et defautes (=the ruinous state of the city walls of Berwick makes people abandon their houses) eschuer a mon desire  ii 229
♦helpful: 
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  il serront tenuz favourables et confortables a les ditz rebelx  319.13
tresconfortable 
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