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conversacion (c.1136-65)
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conversacion (c.1136-65)

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conversacione,  conversacioun,  conversaciun,  conversation,  conversatiun;  coversacion  (conusacion)  
  FEW:  conversatio 2/ii,1132b Gdf:  conversacion 2,287a GdfC:  conversation 9,190a TL: conversacïon 2,817 DEAF:  conversacion  DMF:  conversation  TLF:  conversation  OED:  conversation n.  MED:  conversacioun n.  DMLBS:  conversatio 1 480b

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1behaviour, way of life: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Des felons la maisun notum Mundaine conversation. Lor maisun est vie mondaine  Salemon 8266
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  […] dont est allumé seint Esglise par lour conversation  BOZ Cont 172
( MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Yver est froit temps e moist en quell covynt conversacion reflicher (Latin: usus vivendi mutari debet)  Med Trans 353
( c.1356 )  homme de bone fame et conversacioun  ROUGH 13
2conversion: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ce purporta sa conversaciun. Un symples home de Assyse En out espiritale apryse  S Fran ANTS 142
mal conversacion
evil ways: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  ceux qe furent en juvente pleisauntz devenent en age desavenantz, amerz par mal conversacioun  BOZ Cont 175
seinte conversacion
eccl.monasticreligious life: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  si reçut de lui l’abit De seinte conversation Desouz la Dé protection  Dial Greg SATF 9645
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (St Wilfrid) A lui (= St Audree) vint pur li […] endoctriner La droite voie par sermon De seinte conversation  S Audree1 1722
lettre, lettres de conversacion , de bone conversacion
credentials, certificate of good character: 
( s.xiv )  q’il eit sufficeant recorde pur lui par lettres de south seal autentik de sa conversacion et de sa bone fame  YMB i 79
( 1352 )  ait il jour resonable a quere de soun pais lettre de boun conversacioun south seal autentyk  Bor Cust i 7
( 1393-95 )  [..…] apporte ové luy lettres de sa conversacioun et de sa bone porte  Goldsmiths 242

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conversion 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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