destruiement (s.xii1)
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destruiement (s.xii1)

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  FEW:  destruere *3,56a Gdf:  destruiement 2,675a GdfC: ∅ TL: destruiement 2,1805 DEAF:  destruire (destruiement)  DMF:  destruiement  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
destruement,  destruiment  

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1destruction, devastation: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  Plungé sunt la gent el destruement (Latin: interitum) que il firent  12.IX.15
( 1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Dunc iert destruiement De tute humeine gent  1086
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  dulur [...] des plaies qui lur sunt faites el destruiement del cors  82.10
2law(personal, financial) ruin, undoing: 
( 1215; MS: 1226 )  [L]es gardeors de la terre […] ne pregne [sic] de la terre de l’eir fors reignables issues […], e ce senz destruiement e senz vast des homes e des choses  357.4
♦undoing, defeat: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Veiez ses enemis aler a sun destruiement  1042
( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Le terz jour aprés jeta A. ces soorz e vist ben e conu le destruement Charlys  264
faire destruiement
1lawto commit destruction, illegal damage: 
( 1215; MS: 1226 )  se nos avons livrié la garde de la terre d’aucuni itel a visconte [...] et cil de la garde fera destruiment o gast  357.4
faire destruiement de
1to bring down, defeat: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  de tuz les paens nus fist destruiement  3611
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