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estrangement (s.xii3/4)

estrangement (s.xii3/4)

estraungement  
  FEW:  extraneus 3,332b Gdf:  estraignement 2 3,638c GdfC:  estraignement 9,565b TL: estrange (estrangement) 3,1440 DEAF: DMF:  étrangement 2  TLF:  étrangement  OED: MED: DMLBS:

adv.

1as an outsider
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Vers Rome prist le chymin Estraungement, cum pelryn  388
2strangely, curiously, in an unusual manner
( c.1192; MS: c.1275 )  Puis sil (=pepper) quisent estrangement  127.Y304
( MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Cest amur esprent dulcement si endulcist estrangement  106
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  Un enfant se est mustré Aourné mult estrangement  112.187
3extraordinarily, greatly, exceedingly
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Quant vit feu devant li, dota estrangement  6765
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Mut la pleineit estrangement  1865
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  Grant joie en ot estrangement Li papes d’icest mandement  2094
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  En Alisaundre usa sa marchandise, Mult i guaina estrangement  207.51
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Kaunt Fraunceys enveylla, Estraungement se merveylla  212
in an extraordinary manner
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  E il s'enbatid [...] sin ocist a destre e a senestre estrangement  105
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