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errance (1150-70)
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errance (1150-70)

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  FEW:  errare 3,240b Gdf:  errance 3,327b GdfC: ∅ TL: errance 1  DEAF:  herance H357 DMF:  errance  TLF:  errance  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1error, wrongful belief: 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  D’itel errur, de tel errance Ne ruis certes ja delivrance  ADGAR3 204.163
( s.xii4/4; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Jo desir mult l’amendance D’iceste toe fole errance (=belief in sorcery)  S Cath barking 1916
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (King Edwin) jeta le pais de errance  S Audree1 80
2wrongful behaviour: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  nul n’i vit en luxure, En tort ne en errance; lai tenent e mesure  Rom Chev ANTS C 137
3dangerous situation: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  ‘Deus!’ fait R. de L., ‘Cum sui en grant errance’  FANT OUP 791
aveir errance
to be in error: 
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Pez’a qu’avez eu errance; Jo meimes fu en dutance, Nut e jur pur li en aguait  Trist thomas2 1646
estre en errance
to live wrongfully: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  [...] Pur aemplir del tut lur orz putages. En cest guise sunt Hebreus en errance  Anc Test (B) 13698
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1275 )  Ore ne seies mais en errance: En Damedeu met ta fiance  S Eust anon 327
mettre en errance
to lead astray: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  [...] E veit que cil de Flandres l’unt mis en errance  FANT OUP 79
♦to place in a parlous situation: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ço fud W. le fiz R., [...] Ki primes justad as Flamens e mist en grief errance  FANT OUP 1011
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  Pur chaun ke mez en errance Enprendra Deu de tei vengance  ADGAR3 133.253
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