emotionfrightening, terrifying:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
) Kar granz est li Sire e mult loables, espowentables est sur tuz deus
100.95.4
(
1141;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Li tierz
(=of nine suns) sanglanz estoit [...] Feuins, espoentables E asez reluisables
103
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiii1
)
Treis choses i vit mult yduses, Espuntables e mervelluses
1110
♦
emotiondreadful, horrible:
(
s.xiii1;
MS: s.xiiim
)
E[n] tuz lius est le signe de la cruiz a deable e a forsenez horrible e espoentable
ii 29
(
c.1275;
MS: s.xiii4/4
) Aprés cele veue espuntable tresvyst une croyz delytable
993
(
1354;
MS: c.1360
)
les espontables plaies q’en elles sont
182
emotion
terrifying, terrible act:
(
s.xii1;
MS: c.1145
) la vertud des tuens espowentables dirrunt
(Latin: virtutem terribilium tuorum dicent)
130.144.6
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espoentable (s.xii1)