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eloquence (s.xii2/4)
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eloquence (s.xii2/4)

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  FEW:  eloquentia 3,216a Gdf:  eloquence 3,23b GdfC:  eloquence 9,429c TL: eloquence 3,32 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  éloquence  TLF:  éloquence  OED:  eloquence n.  MED:  eloquence n.  DMLBS:  eloquentia 767b

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eloquence, oratory fluency: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Si esteit de grant eloquence E parlot par grant sapience  Conception wace 43
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Les arz dunt il unt escience Lor est ornement d’eloquence  Salemon 4840
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiiex )  Caucedoine [ ...] rent celuy ky le porte ben parlaunt et plein de grant eloquence  Lapid 124
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  ne vus delitez en lur eloquence  Joshua Sermons ii 26
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