controvure (s.xii3/4)
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controvure (s.xii3/4)

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[ FEW: 13/ii,318b *tropare; Gdf: 2,284b controveure; GdfC: ∅; TL: 2,813 controveüre; DEAF:  controver (controveüre); DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED:  contrevure n.; MED:  contrevure n.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
contrevere,  contreveure,  contrevoure,  contrevure,  controveure,  contruveure,  contruvure;  cuntrevure,  cuntrovure,  cuntruvure  

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1creation, imagination: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Ceste reule dedenz n’est pas fete de contrevoure de homme  164.3
2fiction, fabrication, lie: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Veillard, vos i mentez! Cestes controveures […] comparez  7051
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Chançon de geste e d'estoire [...] n’est rien fors controvure  9
( MS: s.xiii )  stropha .i. figmentum vel adinventio gal. contrevure  42
( 1275 )  ne de contier fause novele ou controveure  i 35
3fake: 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  (An idol) Par engin est cuntrefait en entaille u peinture; Semblance est e fausseté, purpens e cuntrevure  598
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ben purporta la mustraunce (=Francis’s stigmata) Ke ben preyst garde e meyst cure. Ne pout pas estre contreveure  6228
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