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alopement (s.xiiiex)
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alopement (s.xiiiex)

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allopement,  eslopement;  aloupement  
  FEW:  lôpen *16,480b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: ∅ DEAF:  aloper (alopement)  DMF:  alopement  TLF: ∅ OED:  elopement n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  alopamentum 69b

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1lawabduction (of an unmarried woman): 
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Rap est proprement alopement de femme pur desir del mariage  Mir Just 29
2lawelopement of married woman with a lover: 
( 1338 )  alopement fuit aleggé en autre counté qe la dowere ne fut demandé  YBB 11-12 Ed III 587
( c.1420-32 )  si ele fait aloupement saunz reconsiling de son baron  Readings App. V 74
( 1469 )  si un feme eslope de son baron […] et le gardein ne voile pleder son eslopement  Readings 97
3lawstate of having eloped, concubinage: 
( c.1437 )  son mere fuit contynuelment en alopement ové son avowterour per un an devaunt q’il fuit engendré  Readings i App. XI 426
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