contraille (c.1136-37)
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contraille (c.1136-37)

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

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1 enmity, hostility: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  s’en pleinst li maufé De Benoit, le seint ami Dé, Par contralie e par manace  5125
2 constraint, force: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xivin )  tiel est la lai de espusaille: Ne dait aver nule contraille  40
3 insult, abuse: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Au roy A. dit honte e contraille E l’apella avoutre  1867
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  contralie, Reproeche, ramposne e folie Demoustre […] la merite De chasqun a qui ele est dite  1905
4 harm, damage: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  A Berceford fud la bataille, Li [Merceis] orent grant cuntraille  1798
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 )  Se fist porter soz le cercloie En une grant coilte de paile Por faire as Sarazins contraille  4932
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  pucellage e espusaille, Quant sunt en bien e sanz contraille, Deu les cherit  2417
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1 without 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  138
2 indubitably, without doubt: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Jesus […] dit […]: ‘Jo meimes sui […] Bon pastur sanz nule contraille’  7805
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