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entant (c.1170)

entant (c.1170)

entaunt;  antaunt  
  FEW:  tantus 13/i,90b Gdf:  tant (en tant) 7,642b GdfC: TL: tant (en tant) 10,86 DEAF:  tant (*)  DMF:  tant (en tant)  TLF:  tant (en tant)  OED: MED: DMLBS:

adv.

1meanwhile
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiim )  Si revoil errer [...] Pur Rigmel amener: ja n’ert plus atargez. Mun regne garderat en tant li bons Ha[r]derez  Horn (O) 5012
2with that, therewith
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Si cunsail avenaunt Te dune tun sergaunt, Nel dais refuser, Ne nuli sen entaunt  CATO ANON ANTS 384
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  Et entaunt les deus bons espiritz departerent  TREVET Cron1 241.10
3for that reason
( c.1185 )  Entant sevels pur mei seez Contre mes mortels enemis  Proth ANTS 11173 var
4thereby
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  pus ke (God) pot alme [...] A cors unir e vie doner, E en taunt de amur entrelier, Inpossible a li n'est mie  Lum Lais ANTS 1714
entant cum
as much as
( c.1401; MS: s.xv1 )  je me recomank a vous en tant come je sçay ou plus puisse  Lett & Pet 70.2
inasmuch as, in that
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiiiex )  e li assailirent de vileyne paroles entant com le apelerent laron e deleaus  Court Bar (X) 28
(in) so far as
( 1395; MS: s.xv1 )  lour em priantz d’executer en tant come ils purront sanz blemure de conscience noz priers  Lett & Pet 170.114.20
while
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  An taunt cum li rays et si counsayllers En debat estayent [...]  LANGTOFT wright ii 278
entant de
as regards, in respect of
( 1340 )  q’ils puissent de sa bone grace estre deschargez, ou alowé entant de custume autrefoitz  Northumb 214
entant que
1so (much so) that, with the result that
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  (I have believed the Devil) mult foithe, en taunt qe j’ai lessee affaire (l. a faire) voz comaundementz  Sz Med1 2
( 1433 )  […] ataunt qe le greindre parte dez gentz q’ount a suer en lez ditz courtes lessent lour sutes  Stats ii 280
so that, in order that
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  plese a vostre tresgracieuse seigneurie de parler a mon dit sire de B. en tant que vostre dit oratour poet estre restoré a dit craier  Lett & Pet 39.18
( 1415-17; MS: s.xv1 )  lessez nous garcions amener nus chivalx sus et jus en le rieu entantque ils soient enfroidez  Liber Donati (D) 21.101
2as much as
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  je me recommans a vostre tresreverente paternitee en tant que je pluis puisse  Lett & Pet 99.2
inasmuch as, in that
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  si fist mutz miracles a deport, En taunt ke il fist le feu de ciel descendre  Apoc giffard 2413
entant [...] que
in proportion as
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Meis en tant plus valut Ke sa nobleye par tant crut  boz Seven Poems 89.132
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