1sound(sounding) sweetly, plesantly:
(
1121-25;
MS: s.xiv1
) Tant dulcement sonat li vols
509
(
1150-70;
MS: s.xii4/4
)
Ysolt chante molt dulcement
844
2
(smelling) sweetly, fragrantly:
(
c.1240;
MS: c.1300
)
Ren ne tucha de cel ordure, Mes plus fleira ducement Ke nule espece fet de Orient
230.29
(
s.xiiiex;
MS: 1307-15
)
celes autres vertuz ke [...] mult doucement flerent en nes Nostre Seignur
99.29
3emotionkindly, gently, lovingly:
(
1121-25;
MS: s.xiv1
) Puis dulcement les ad baisez
1721
(
c.1230;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Puis li dit mult ducement
1239
(
s.xiii2/4;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Ore me entendez ducement
22.5
(
1354;
MS: c.1360
)
les queux douz braz vous soloient si doucement giser entour le cool
140
(
1390
)
il as reservé jusqes a ore et vous et nous, innocens de l’effusion du sanc de noz subgiés, et doulcement il nous as reservé et gardé deffendre l’un et l’autre, noun obstant les ennemyes de peys qui sont nourreis de voier le sanc de loures freres crestiens
256
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