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desleauté (1160-74)
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desleauté (1160-74)

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delaiauté,  delauté,  deleauté;  deslauté,  deslealted,  desleuté,  desloialtee,  desloiauté;  disloialté,  disloialtee  (delaeyauté)  
  FEW:  legalis 5,240a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  desleialté 9,343c TL: deslëauté 2,1631 DEAF:  leal (desleauté)  DMF:  déloyauté  TLF:  déloyauté  OED:  disloyalty n.  MED:  disloialte n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1disloyalty, faithlessness: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  De mun seignur le rei en serreie reté Ke j’en avreie fait vers lui desleauté  Horn 668b
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  pleyns d’ordure et de desloialtee sont ils (=the Seven Deadly Sins)  Sz Med1 88
♦personif.personification of disoyalty, faithlessness: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  (one of the daughters of Lechery:) damoysele Deleauté, Ki volage ad la volenté  Lum Lais ANTS 3187
♦falseness: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  nigromancie [...] Ceo est li art pur aprendre la deslauté de la maleite sorcerie  Ancren2 50.24
2unlawful deed, injustice: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Ne deust por avoir faire desloiauté  Rom de Rou wace i 98.2513
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  li laron [...] ke avoit vesqui [...] en larcin e en totes autres desleautez  Ancren2 95.32
3merch.unworthy product, shoddy goods: 
( c.1398 )  si ascun homme [...] soit [...] trové feisaunt disloialté a le valu de .xiij. d.  YMB i 94
( s.xiv-xv )  si ascun servaunt du dit artifice (=pelterers) soit trové ové disloalté a le valu de .vj. d. [...]  YMB i 60
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