corruptiun (s.xii1/3)
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corruptiun (s.xii1/3)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1234b corrumpere; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,207c corruption; TL: 2,902 corrupcïon; DEAF:  corrupcïon; DMF:  corruption; TLF:  corruption; OED:  corruption n.; MED:  corrupcioun n.; DMLBS: 503b corruptio ]
corrupcioun,  corrupciun,  corruption,  corruptioun;  corupcione,  corupcioun,  coruption;  coripcion  171,  corrumptiun  

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1foulness, infectedness: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  quant le cors en fust porri, Dunt freit as vifs destructiun La puur e la grant corruptiun  666
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Estes vos la gent a mourir Par la corruption de l’eir (caused by drowned animals)  751
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  mes la puur Cresseit itant ke la flaur Feseit mult grant corrupciun A ceuz que aproceint cele mesun  246.45
( 1404 )  diverses gentz privément gettent toutz maneres des entrailles des bestes […] deinz une petite eawe […] par ont […] vyent si grand puour et corruption  iii 551
♦taintedness: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Cume veez de un baril afustez Quant bon vin leinz i est versez: La corupciun […] Le vin […] receit  2771
( 1327 )  ils ne poeient les dites vyns […] vendre pur leur corupcioun  154
2soiling, dirtying: 
( 1335-36 )  (dirty water must not be thrown into the High Street) a nuisance et corupcioun des bones gentz  ii 21
♦defilement: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  la femme ne pot […] Cunceivre sanz corupciun  2726
♦theol.corruption (by a state of sinfulness): 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Deus poet estre par raisun, Qu’il n’ot en li corruptiun  213.272
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Par les arbres entent Corruptiun de gent, Nof pechez criminals  810
3moral corruption, perversion: 
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  (God) por la delectation De lor (=Sodomites’) charnal corruption De soufre les feseit esteindre  18022
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  crim ne se poet fere ne pecché si noun parmi voluntie corumpue e corrupcion de volunté  138
4 corruption, change in word-form: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Mais qui le nom guarde, si trove Que Trinovant est Troie Nove, Que bien pert par corruptiun Faite la compositiun  1229
corruptiun de(l) sanc
1lawcorruption of blood (loss of all rights to rank and title suffered by a person attainted and his descendants): 
( 1416 )  d’estre able, abletz et restoré a lez noun de Count de H., fame, honour […] sanz coruption de sang  iv 100
( 1421 )  la corrupcioun del sang parentre le dit nadgairs counte e […] son fitz  iv 142
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