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corteisement (s.xii2/4)
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corteisement (s.xii2/4)

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

adv.

1in courtly fashion: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: c.1300 )  al roi li presenterent mult corteisement  Boeve 378
♦courteously, politely: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Corteisement l’apareilla Qui virgene a virgene comanda  Conception wace 1229
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Aquayntez vous a bones gent Et parlez curtesyment  Courtoisie 414.144
( 1306 )  qe vous le recevez corteysement e ly trovez feyn e aveyne  Westm Wenlok 111
( 1316 )  Henri qe se bien et corteissement se porte vers le dit evesqe  Reg Martival ii 85
( 1354 )  les queux (=hostages) serront tenuz tretez curtoisement  Rot Scot i 768
2finely, elegantly: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  comiter .i. curteisement  Gloss Sidon 139.32
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  Vestu erent mult richement E chaucé mult corteisement  Brut Royal 3872
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  l’ymage bele […] Ke fu […] peinturee E mult curteisement ben dorree  Mir N-D 124.37
3attentively: 
( MS: s.xii/xiii )  acurate: (T) cortesement (var. (D: xiii/xiv) ententimen)  TLL ii 38
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