espuse1 (s.xii2/4)
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espuse1 (s.xii2/4)

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  FEW:  sponsus 12,211b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  espose 9,548b TL: espos, espose 3,1242 DEAF:  espos (espose)  DMF:  épouse  TLF:  époux  OED:  spouse n.  MED:  spous(e n.  DMLBS:  sponsa 2 3168b
espose,  espouse  

s.f.

1kinshipstatusfemalebride, wife, female spouse: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Toz cels qui esposes n’aveient Qui del Davit lignage esteient. Comandé fu que tuit venissent E en lor mains verges tenissent. En qui la verge florireit A espose la virgene avreit  729 and 734
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xivin )  (King Lear) De s'espuse out treis puceles  1209
( 1375 )  la quelle Elizabeth est ore espose a nostre bien amé George de Felbrige  ii 329
♦theol.kinshipfemalebride (in a mystical marriage to God, used with reference to the Virgin Mary, the Church or a religious woman): 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Dunc parla issi Nostre Sire: 'Marie, gemme preciose, Virgene saintisme, meie espose [...]'  1499
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  saint iglise [...] est espuse Deu, qui est sire des reis  1227
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  La dame n'est pas orguillose, Pur ceo est ele la Deu espuse  6258
( c.1270; MS: c.1270-75 )  l’espuse Jesu Crist—c’est a dire, seincte eglise—est ensemble joynte a Jesu Crist  1220
( MS: c.1300 ) Avé mere Jhesu Crist, avé Deu espose  160r
femme espuse
1 femalekinship wife, female spouse: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  (Saint John) aveit eu sa femme espuse Sulum la lei que lai hume use  6063
( 1255-60; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  En tutes les maneres ke houme fet le desir de lur char sauns sa femme espuse, ço est apelé fornicatiun  95.1610
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  barrouns e chevalers, femme [sic] espouses  39
( 1327 )  si clerk accuse de crime en curt seculere allegge devaunt justices q’il est clerk et [...] alleggent countre ly bygamye, c’est a dyre qe yl ad heu deux femmes esposes  109
prendre a espuse
1 kinship to marry, take to wife: 
( s.xivin; MS: 1312-40 )  je vous pri, cher amy Fouke, [...] qe vous la pernez a espouse  30.20
( 1339 )  Edward nos ditz fitz [...] prendra a loial femme et espuse damoisele Marguerete  ii 1083
espus#1  espusable  espusage  espusaille  espusé#1  espusement  espuser#1  espuseté  spuse 
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