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desestance (1174-75)
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desestance (1174-75)

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  FEW:  desistere 3,54a Gdf:  desestance 2,581a GdfC: ∅ TL: desestance 2,1575 DEAF:  ester (desestance)  DMF:  désistance  TLF: ∅ OED:  desistance n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  desistentia 630c

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1difference: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Mes ceste desestance est ke si vous desperez aver victorie de vos gent a pé [...] vous devez eslire hauz lius  97.9
2discord: 
( 1230-53 )  icele desestance Ki entre mes suers est hastie (l. bastie) [...]  384
3complaint, distress: 
( 1285; MS: s.xiii1 )  Oez me desestance, Kar en vus est la garisun  375.42
sanz desestance, sanz nule desestance
incontestably, irrevocably: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  perdu ad lu rei H. senz nule desestance (var. destance)  1257
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Par mi le cors li mist la lance, Mort l’abati sanz desestance (var. (C,F: s.xiii4/4,) destance)  5212
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