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(
c.1240; MS: c.1300
)
N’est pas dreit ke entre gent Profés en moniage parfite Seit cil mis ke en mort despite Mustre sa putte conversiun
Mir N-D 195.32
2despised, contemptible:
(
s.xii1; MS: 1155-60
)
en la mesericorde del Halt ne serat despit (Latin: non decipietur)Camb Ps 31.XX.7
(
s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim
)
L’arbre (=Tree of Knowledge) fud despite (l. despité?) e a tuz, fors as dampnez, fud entredite
Joshua Sermons i 13
(
s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin
)
le [noir drap] signefie qe vous estes [noires] et despites devers le secle dehors
Ancren1 35.21
despit2 (s.xii1)