covenableté (s.xii1)

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covenableté (s.xii1)

[ FEW: 2/ii,1128a convenire; Gdf: 2,346a covenableté; GdfC: ; TL: 2,976 covenableté; DEAF:  covenir (covenableté); DMF:  convenableté; TLF: ; OED:  covenablete n.; MED:  covenablete n.; DMLBS: ]
cuvenableté  

s._pl.

1suitable occasion, opportunity
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ne covenableté ne defaut pas, quant humaine pensers sunt fait plus orgeilousement e nient cointement ou fieblesse  120.17
good times
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  E faiz est li Sire refuges al povre, ajuere en cuvenabletez, en tribulatiun  46.9.9
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