1covetousness, cupidity, greed:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
) oblierent les ovres de lui, ne sustindrent le conseil de lui, e coveiterent cuveitise el desert
(Latin: concupierunt concupiscentiam in deserto)
107.105.14
(
c.1141;
MS: s.xiii4/4
) Coveitise d'aveir Les f[e]ra naier voir
695
(
s.xiiiin;
MS: s.xiii2/4
)
Avarice, ceo est cuveitise
13795
(
MS: s.xiii2
)
cupido: covetyse
ii 4
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
les medicines encountre coveitise e avarice
10.18
♦
keen desire:
(
s.xiii1/3;
MS: c.1255
)
sin ai jo coveitise De lui faire grant servise
(P) 205
(
MS: s.xiii2
)
ambitus: coveytise
ii 23
(
1354
)
fount les prisonz devenir provors appeler leux
(=loyal) gentz pur coveitise de gayner
291
2base action, deed:
(
s.xiii3/3;
MS: s.xivm
)
blameront molt l’Emperour pur la coveitise q’il pensa faire
43.22
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coveitise (s.xii1)