despisanment (c.1136-65)
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despisanment (c.1136-65)

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[ FEW: *3,55a despicere; Gdf: 2,630a despisanment; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF: ∅; DMF:  despisamment; TLF: ∅; OED: ∅; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅ ]
 

adv.

1contemptuously, in an insulting fashion: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  ‘Ne degeter, fiz, par folor La doctrine de tun Seignor. [...] Nen  (ed. N’en) defaillir despisanment’  2478
( 1285-1330 )  E il despisanment firent la delivrance par bré de la cort le Roy  377.12
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