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confortable (1155-60)

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confortable (1155-60)

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

counfortable

a.1comforting ♦ encouraging ♦ helpful

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1emotioncomforting:

( MS: 1155-60 ) Le saint neis confortable Esperit (Latin: paraclitum Spiritum) 282.13

( s.xiii^2/4; MS: s.xiii² ) Deus dunat le confortur, ço est l’esperit confortable 9559

♦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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