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jolifté (c.1136-65)

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The form joliveté is a cross reference to the following entry:

jolifté (c.1136-65)

joliveté,  jolivté;  joleté,  jolieté,  jolité  
  FEW:  jol 16,285a Gdf:  jolieté 4,652c / joliveté 4,654a GdfC: TL: joliveté (jolïeté) 4,1754 DEAF:  jolif (joliveté) J522 DMF:  jolieté  / joliveté  TLF: OED:  jollity n.  MED:  jolite n.  DMLBS:

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1emotionjoyfulness, happiness
( 1150-70; MS: s.xiii1 )  Bien sai en quei vus vus fiez: En la joli[ve]té del rei  1152
( s.xiv1 )  Et por ceo qe la ville de Lundres soit renomee de touz biens en tuz lieus; et por ceo qe jolietés, pais, honestez, douceur, deboneiretés, e bon amour, sanz infinité, soit maintenue  216
emotionyouthful exuberance, jollity
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Ne poet nul hoem de ceo blamer Joevene de joliveté amer  578
( c.1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Jofne es et ta jolieté, Te poet encore long durer  5690
2wantonness, lasciviousness
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Ki de telx maistres est porsis, N’est merveilles s’il est golis; De purseer joliveté Serat periz e tormenté  7123
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  De juvente e de veillesce, De jolifté e de peresce  6
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  E de nus pur la priere De la duce seinte mere, Ke ja en peine ne seum Pur jolifté ke nus fesum  118.120
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Vesqui aveit trefolement En jolifté de cors vileynement  4780
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  jolifté ce est ke fet humme volage e abandener ses sens a folies  210ra

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See also:

joliet  jolif  jolifté  jolivement  joliver  jolivesce 
This is an AND2 Phase 3 (I/Y-M) entry. © 2008-2012 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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