desheit (1121-25)

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desheit (1121-25)

[ FEW: 16,117a *haid; Gdf: 2,593b deshait; GdfC: ; TL: 2,1605 deshait; DEAF: H85 hait (deshait); DMF:  deshait; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
dahait;  dehait,  dehaite,  dehayt,  deheit,  deheyt,  dehet;  desait,  deshait,  deshet,  deshoit; 
pl. dehayz  

s.

1emotionmental suffering, despair, dismay
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ne chalz, ne freiz, ne dehaite, Ne faim, ne seit, ne suffraite  1761
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  mult ad grant dolur, anguisse e deshait  C 27
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Nuls ne purreit [...] descrivre Le grant deshet ne la dolur Ke el demeine pur sue amur  4233
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Suffre cest Ysolt pur Tristran, Mesaise, dehait e dolur  2040
2unwillingness, reluctance
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  E jeo le freie od grant deshet  224
3illness, sickness
( c.1241; MS: s.xiii2 )  pur maladie u deheyt  406
( MS: 1272-82 )  Li dehayz [...] si perent gysir long le dos quant il close les eles  48D
( 1303 )  molt nous poyse de vostre desheit  iv 521
( 1323-25 )  il nous poise molt de vostre desheit  78
estre en desheit
1emotionto despair, suffer misery
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  ne faciez tel fait Dunt saint iglise chiece en plus dolerus plait, Qui maint jor a esté en plur en deshait  3263
il turne a desheit a
1 emotion it drives (a person) to despair
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Dolenz fu Odes de la prise E de la hunte e de l’ocise Que Normanz unt de Franceis fait, Turné li est a grant deshait  i 224.1680
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