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infinité (1206-15)

infinité (1206-15)

 
  FEW:  infinitus 4,670a Gdf: GdfC:  infinité 10,13c TL: inifinité 2 4,1384 DEAF:  infinit (infinité) I244 DMF:  infinité  TLF:  infinité  OED:  infinity n.  MED:  infinite n.  DMLBS:  infinitas 1355b

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infinity
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  E ki cuntredit le infinité Cuntredit la deité  Man pechez 9269
very large number
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  De la gent une infinité Mourirent de la pestilence  S Greg 714
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Il avint a une haute feste, [...] Ke a cele grant sollempnité De gent i hunt grant infinité  Mir N-D 37.146
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Lur pecchez acusanz serunt a destre, E infinité de diables a senestre Ke ver enfer les trerunt  Lum Lais ANTS 12844
very large quantity
( 1206-15; MS: s.xiii1/4 )  par ices tres braz (= the rivers Thames, Severn and Humber) vont e venent infinitez de granz richeises  Description Prose 5.42
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  E cil lors, por ço qe quida Plus longement vivre, auna De pecune un infinité  Dial Greg SATF 19309

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infinité