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contraille (c.1136-37)

contraille (c.1136-37)

contraillie;  countraille,  cuntraille;  contralie,  cuntralie  
  FEW:  contrarius *2/ii,1121b Gdf:  contraille 2,268a GdfC: TL: DEAF:  contraire 1 (contraile)  DMF:  contraile  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

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1enmity, hostility
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  s’en pleinst li maufé De Benoit, le seint ami Dé, Par contralie e par manace  Dial Greg SATF 5125
2constraint, force
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  tiel est la lai de espusaille: Ne dait aver nule contraille  Corset ANTS 40
3insult, abuse
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Au roy A. dit honte e contraille E l’apella avoutre  Rom Chev ANTS 1867
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  contralie, Reproeche, ramposne e folie Demoustre […] la merite De chasqun a qui ele est dite  Dial Greg SATF 1905
4harm, damage
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  A Berceford fud la bataille, Li [Merceis] orent grant cuntraille  GAIMAR1 1798
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  pucellage e espusaille, Quant sunt en bien e sanz contraille, Deu les cherit  Mirur2 2417
sanz contraille
1without using force
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  cil que ne se poet tenir K’il ne face charnel desir, Sil face par saint’ espusaille, Sauntz leccherie, sauntz countraille  Corset ANTS 138
2indubitably, without doubt
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Jesus […] dit […]: ‘Jo meimes sui […] Bon pastur sanz nule contraille’  Mirur3 7805

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contraire1 
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