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
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