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curiosité (s.xiii1)
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curiosité (s.xiii1)

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curioseté,  curiositee,  curiousetee,  curiuseté,  curuosité;  couriousté,  curiousté  (curuseté  TLL ii 114, 119)  
  FEW:  curiositas 2/ii,1564a Gdf:  curiosité 2,406b GdfC:  curiosité 9,267c TL: curïoseté 2,1162 DEAF:   curios (curioseté)  DMF:  curiosité  TLF:  curiosité  OED:  curiosity n.  MED:  curiousite n.  DMLBS:  curiositas 539b

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1emotioncare, anxiety: 
( MS: s.xiii )  solicitudo: curiuseté  TLL ii 93
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (when listening to music) les sens dunkes se reposent, Pensers e curiosité forclosent  Secr abernun 753
2emotionavidity, keenness: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Curiosité est une vice tres malveis ke fait hume estre ententif e curius d’enquere choses ke ne profitent  Joshua Sermons i 25
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  par l’art e les menestreus a dreit signefie Sutil engin de gaaigner e la curiosité  Apoc giffard 3554
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  (talk of spices) par si grante curiosité et […] delit passee par my ma bouche  Sz Med1 20
3curiosity: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  pur grant curiousté de savoir quele chose Virgil lui avoit baillé, overist la boiste  TREVET Cron1 111.10
4elaboration, refinement: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  en le sermon […] rudement endité pur eschyvre curiosité  Mirour Egl 2.3
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  lessé toute curiositee des paroles plesantz […] je vous promette […] que […]  Lett & Pet 215.3
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