desaffier (s.xiiex)
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desaffier (s.xiiex)

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  FEW:  fidare 3,501a Gdf:  desafier 2,532a GdfC: ∅ TL: desafïer 2,1457 DEAF:  fïer (desafïer)  DMF:  desaffier  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
desafier;  dissafier  

v.a.

1to challenge: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1335 )  Le un l’autre desaffient, Qe entre eus nul amur ne etent  587
2to assume, imagine (wrongly): 
( MS: c.1330 )  Si ele juwe et sovent rye [...] Li home quyde et desafie Qe la famme ver luy plye  105.13

v.refl.

1to distrust: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Cil pecche en seint esperit Quant de sa bunté se desafit  3224
( 1323-25 )  Et pur Dieu, ne vous voillez pas desaffier de ceaux qe se affient en vous  168

p.p._as_a.

1distrustful: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  come cheitifs desleaus, desesperanz de la merci Deu e desafianz  94.4
affier#1  defier#1  desaffiance 
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