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enhumilier (s.xii2)
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enhumilier (s.xii2)

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  FEW:  humilis *4,511a Gdf:  enhumilier (s') 3,191b GdfC: ∅ TL: enumiliier 3,698 DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

to make humble: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  si les riches sunt la enhumiliez e les povres sunt la plus enflez [...]  Augustine p.182

v.refl.

to bow, bend down: 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Dun nen as tu veud cume Achab se est devant mei enhumiliez?  Liv Reis1 167
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Amphibal pieté en (=of a sick man) ad, vers lui s’enhumilie  S Aub 1457
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