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grandisme (s.xiiiex)
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grandisme (s.xiiiex)

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grandeime;  grandesime,  grantdezime;  graundyme,  grauntdime  (grandesme  Anon Chr2 138 and 154)  
  FEW:  grandis 4,223a Gdf:  grandisme 4,334c GdfC:  grandissime 9,717a TL: grandisme 4,540 DEAF:  grandisme G1207 DMF:  grandissime  TLF:  grandissime  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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very great, very large: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  si en issi une grandesime flamme hors de sa sepulture  Ancren2 81.17
( 1310 ) Et d’autrepart, jeo vous doune un grantdezime (var. graunt) place cum marreis ou bruere  YBB Ed II iii 34
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  car si grant mestier ne poet nul avoir d’estre hors de la grandisme chalour mult ardant en pecché  Sz Med1 153
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  od grandisme ost et vaillaunt  Anon Chr1 7.25
a grandisme eslais
eslais

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See also:

grant2  tresgrandisme 
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grandisme