confusion (s.xii1)

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confusion (s.xii1)

  FEW:  confusio 2/ii,1046b Gdf: GdfC:  confusion 9,155b TL: confusïon 2,688 DEAF:  confus (confusion)  DMF:  confusion  TLF:  confusion  OED:  confusion n.  MED:  confusioun n.  DMLBS:  confusio 438a
confusione,  confusioun,  confusiun;  cunfusiun,  cumfusiun  4223  

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1confusion, mixing up
( MS: 1155-60 )  (Christ is one:) Uns de tut en tut nient par la cunfusiun (Latin: non confusione) de la sustance, mais par la unité de persone  291.36
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  por la multiplicacion des choses si avient la confusion des actions  i 168
disorder, discord
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Entre nus e vus […] Est grant confusiun ferme, Ke nuls ne poet […] De ci en deske la a vus passer, Ne d’iloc ça tresaler  117vb34
2emotion(shame of) discomfiture, defeat, undoing
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Tute jurn la meie confusion (Latin: confusio) est encuntre mei, e la hunte de ma face covreit mei  76.XLIII.15
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  si quiert destructiun, Sa mort e sun damage e sa confusiun  309
( c.1270; MS: c.1270-75 )  La cene Deu n’est autre chose for la confusiun e la mort des malurez  1084
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Ceste devant dite confusion du diable par confession […]  49.4
( 1379-80 )  […] dont l’en espoir qe grant bien a nous e meschief e confusion a touz noz enemys ent purront avenir  iii 73
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  a graunt confusione d’Engleterre et graunt comfort des enmys  64.26
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