covertement (1121-35)

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covertement (1121-35)

[ FEW: 2/ii,1147b cooperire; Gdf: ; GdfC: 9,235b couvertement; TL: 2,1003 covrir (couvertement); DEAF:  covrir (covertement); DMF:  couvertement; TLF: ; OED:  covertly adv; MED:  covertli adv.; DMLBS: ]
cuvertement,  colvertement  Ed II xxii 96  

adv.

1in secret, secretly
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Si ço (=rape) [fud feit] cuvertement, Jo voil murir overtement  2657
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  E ki mal fait covertement […] Ne pot faillir n’en seit laidiz  6111
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Par noit fuit de la contree Covertement e a celee  14
( 1351-52 )  pur les amesner & mettre a fyn solonc lour malveis purpos le plus colourablement & covertement, firent assembler un conseill  ii 238
2indirectly, implicitly, obliquely
( 1121-35; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Eissifaiterement (God) Le fist cuvertement: Es degrez se meteit Dunt chascun ordre esteit  172
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Ci nos notet covertement Ke le devin commandement […] Ne devreit porloigner nuls hom  3019
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  acune foiz expressement (var. (M: s.xivin) apertement) et acune foiz covertement  i 371
3obscurely
( 1304 )  ne pledez pas cy covertement […]  32-33 Ed I 281
( 1310 )  vous pledez moult covertement, et pur ceo descloez nous la cas  Ed II ii 169
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