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deceivance (c.1136-65)
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deceivance (c.1136-65)

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decevance,  decevaunce,  decevanche;  deçavance,  desçaivaunce;  desceivance,  desceivaunce;  discevaunce  (desceivaunz)  
  FEW:  decipere *3,25a Gdf:  decevance 2,440b GdfC: ∅ TL: decevance 2,1245 DEAF:  decevoir (decevance)  DMF:  décevance  TLF: ∅ OED:  deceivance n.  MED:  deceivaunce n.  DMLBS: ∅

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deceit, deception, trick(ery): 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  En veire amor n’ad decevance Plus que en certee dotance  Salemon 3035
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Par engin et par decevance  Trist thomas2 1592
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  ceo fu fantaime e fable E decevance del Diable  Lum Lais ANTS 112
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  ses (=the Devil’s) guischuses sorceries et toutes ses decevances, sicome faus songes, falses moustrances, [...]  Ancren1 184.29-30
( c.1300 )  e donqe serra l’autre amerchié pur son faus cleym, kar che est une desceivaunz de dehereiteson  Bor Cust i 275
( 1312 )  P. de G. ad malmenez et malconseillez nostre seignur le roi, et l’ad enticee a mal faire en diverses maneres et deceivances  Rot Parl1 i 283
( 1338 )  sanz fraude, decevanche et sanz mal engyn  Treaty Rolls ii 119.42
en deceivance de
to the frustration, thwarting of: 
( 1327 )  les vicountes [...] les (=prisoners) seuffrent aler [...] en deceyvaunce de seynt eglise  Rot Parl2 109
( c.1335; MS: s.xivm )  [...] en grante desceivance de la dite roigne  Anon Chr2 122
faire deceivance a
to deceive, lead astray: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Molesce, e fause afiance E coveitise lur funt decevance  Lum Lais ANTS 10064
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