1emotioncontempt, disdain, defiance:
(
s.xii1;
MS: 1155-60
)
Je acertes sui verms, e nient bers; repruce de humes, e despit de pueple
(Latin: despectio plebis)
Camb Ps 32.XXI.6
(
1160-74;
MS: s.xvii
)
Mout avoient li roiz et ses hommes despis, Et li roiz et sa gent lez ont touz desconfiz
Rom de Rou wace i 38.647
(
s.xiii3/4;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
despit ceo est aviler sun presme
Pecchez 208va
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
encontre ceo est humilité despit de sa propre hautesce
Ancren2 3.25
♦
act of contempt, disdain, defiance:
(
s.xii3/4;
MS: s.xiv2
)
Par lettre l’ount maundez q’il en face du pis Q’il en purra faire e vengier ses despits
Rom Chev ANTS 1310
(
1304-05
)
il ad fait tiel despit a nous e les nos qe nous ne voudrom mye gré [...] luy fu fait
Lett EPW1 155
(
c.1339
)
si nul estraunge forene [face] de tiele despitz en court [...]
Bor Cust ii 22
(
a.1399;
MS: a.1399
)
le mair de Loundres [...] arresona le dit Wat de celle violence et despite fait en presence le roy
Anon Chr1 148.22
2damage, detriment:
(
1278
)
son damage est graunt ke de ce despyens
(l. despy[t] eut)
Rot Parl1 i 10
(
1295
)
facez [...] efforcer la garde de la dite Isle [...] qe dempnage ne despit aveigne a nous ne a nostre royaume
PONTISSARA ii 524.14
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