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ducement (1121-25)
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ducement (1121-25)

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dolcement;  doucement,  doulcement;  dulcement  
  FEW:  dulcis 3,174b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  dolcement 9,403b TL: douz (doucement)  DEAF:  douz (doucement)  DMF:  doucement  TLF:  doucement  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

adv.

1sound(sounding) sweetly, plesantly: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) Tant dulcement sonat li vols  S Brend mup 509
( 1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Ysolt chante molt dulcement  Trist thomas2 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  Mir N-D 230.29
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  celes autres vertuz ke [...] mult doucement flerent en nes Nostre Seignur  Ancren2 99.29
3emotionkindly, gently, lovingly: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 ) Puis dulcement les ad baisez  S Brend mup 1721
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Puis li dit mult ducement  S Modw 1239
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Ore me entendez ducement  Mirour Egl 22.5
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  les queux douz braz vous soloient si doucement giser entour le cool  Sz Med1 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  Lett Rois 256

See also:

tresducement 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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