coveitus (1121-35)
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coveitus (1121-35)

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  FEW:  cupiditas 2/ii,1552a Gdf:  covoitos 2,352c GdfC:  covoitos 9,237b TL: covoitos 2,1002 DEAF:  covoit (covoitable)  DMF:  convoiteux  TLF:  convoiteux  OED:  covetous adj.  MED:  coveitous adj.  DMLBS: ∅
coveitos,  coveitous,  covoitous;  cuveitous,  cuveitus,  cuvetus,  conveitous  

a.

1emotioncovetous, greedy: 
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  E quant (man) est cuveitus, A femme trait des murs  1201
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Ele est legere e enviuse, Avere e chiche e cuveituse  3150
( MS: s.xiii2 )  av[i]dos: cuvetus  ii 7
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Encountre coveitise e avarice, ke serreit coveitus ou avers  30.7
( 1356-57; MS: s.xivex )  Qar ils ne sont orgoillous, ne conveitous, ne paressous, ne envious [...]  456
estre coveitus de
1emotionto be keen on, longing for: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Deliter se put bien home chevalerus E tuit cil qui sunt de romanz coveitus  17
( MS: c.1300 ) Cist mund ne preisast une peire, Tant serreit de lui =J.C. coveitus  70v

s.

1emotioncovetous person: 
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiiiex )  Nul ewe ne put asauler les ardans, ne nul aver put asauler le cuveitus  (ed. cuveitur)  52
( c.1300; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  jeo, prince de coveitus De orguil[us] e d’envius As riches ay doné et granté, Ke […]  146.3
acoveitus  coveitable  coveitement  coveiter  coveitie  coveitise 
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