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envanir (1171-74)

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envanir (1171-74)

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FEW: evanescere *3,251a Gdf: envanir 3,311a / (s')envaner 3,311a GdfC: ∅ TL: envaner 3,702 / envanir 3,702 / envanöir 3,702 DEAF: esvanir (envaner) / esvanir (envanir) / esvanoïr (envanoïr) DMF: envanouir TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

envaner, envanoir, envanouir, envanuir

v.a.1to make disappear, get rid of
v.n.1to vanish, disappear 2to wither 3to come to nothing 4to become faint, weak, unsteady
v.refl.1to vanish, disappear

v.a.

1to make disappear, get rid of:

( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 ) me volent vers vus mesler e mal tenir E l’amur e la pais desfaire e envanir 4857

v.n.

1to vanish, disappear:

( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiⁱⁿ ) Si vestement erent luisant, Si que l’oscurté envani 266.67

( c.1215; MS: 1330-40 ) Dunc dist tost Jhesu Crist merci E la peine de tut envany 478

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: 1312-40 ) A taunt envanist cele clareté 59.33

2bot.to wither:

( s.xivⁱⁿ; MS: s.xiv^m ) la flour qe tost envanist 168

3to come to nothing:

( c.1334; MS: s.xiv^m ) ordina duze successours, mes ceste ordinance envanist, qar sulement quatre ci només occuperent le roialme 83.18

4to become faint, weak, unsteady:

( c.1185 ) En som le alme tel cop li done Que tut envanist e estone 4368

( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) E de feiblesce envanuirent Qe par destresce soi pasmerent 115684

v.refl.

1to vanish, disappear:

( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) La clarté [...] petit e petit Doi souztreist e s’envanoit 15720

( 1214-16; MS: s.xiv^1/4 ) E kaunt il out ço dist, il s’envany de moy 1313

( s.xiii²; MS: 1333-34 ) demons Humeine forme pernoient, Oveqes ceo la nature; Ou femmes firent mixture [...], E tost aprés s'envanerent 22.416

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