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desperance (s.xiii2/4)
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desperance (s.xiii2/4)

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desperaunce  
  FEW:  desperare 3,55a Gdf:  desperance 2,627c GdfC: ∅ TL: desperance 2,1691 DEAF:  desperer (desperance)  DMF:  despérance  TLF: ∅ OED:  desperance n.  MED:  desperaunce  DMLBS: ∅

s.

emotiontheol.(sin of) despair: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  [De accidie nescent tristesce], malice, desperance [...]  Mirour Egl 20.30
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1 )  Il serrunt pris en grant destresce De desperance e de tristesce  Evang1 538
( 1308; MS: s.xiv1 )  Ore (=now that Edward I has died) est la tere en desperaunce  Pol Songs 84.26
chair en desperance
theol.to fall into (the sin of) despair: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  pur ceo ke acun purreit par grant amertume chair en desperance  Ancren2 131.31

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desesperance 
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