corteisement (s.xiiex)
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corteisement (s.xiiex)

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[ FEW: *2/i,850b cohors; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,229b courtoisement; TL:  cortois (cortoisement); DEAF:  cort 1 (cortoisement 1); DMF:  courtoisement; TLF:  courtoisement; OED:  courteously adv.; MED:  courteisli(che adv.; DMLBS: ∅ ]
corteisment,  corteissement,  cortesement;  courtaisement,  courtaisment,  courteisement,  courtesement,  courteisment;  curtaisement,  curtaisment,  curteisement,  curtesement,  curtesiment,  curtoisement  

adv.

1in courtly fashion: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  al roi li presenterent mult corteisement  378
♦courteously, politely: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Aquayntez vous a bones gent Et parlez curtesyment  414.144
( 1306 )  qe vous le recevez corteysement e ly trovez feyn e aveyne  111
( 1316 )  Henri qe se bien et corteissement se porte vers le dit evesqe  ii 85
( 1354 )  les queux (=hostages) serront tenuz tretez curtoisement  i 768
2finely, elegantly: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  comiter .i. curteisement  139.32
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Vestu erent mult richement E chaucé mult corteisement  3872
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  l’ymage bele […] Ke fu […] peinturee E mult curteisement ben dorree  124.37
3attentively: 
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  acurate: (T) cortesement(var. (D: xiii/xiv) ententimen)  ii 38
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