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couardise (1160-74)
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The form kuardise is a cross reference to the following entry:

couardise (1160-74)

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coardise,  cowardise;  cuardise;  kuardise  
  FEW:  cauda 2/i,523b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  coardise 9,116a TL: cöardise 2,508 DEAF:  cöe (cöardise)  DMF:  couardise  TLF:  couardise  OED:  cowardice n.  MED:  couardise n.  DMLBS: ∅

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cowardice, lack of bravery: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Volentiers altre part tornast Se coardise ne semblast  Rom de Rou wace ii 194.8312
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Dehez eit touz jours cowardie (var. (B: s.xivin) cuardise) ! N’afert pruz a chivalerie  Ipom BFR 549
( 1404 )  et aussi afin que par necessi[té, meschief, et] poverté il ne nous convienge pas guerpir la dit ville a confusion d’icelle; de quoy couardise puisse estre [entendue en] nous autrement que desservi n’avons ne desservir vouillons  Roy Lett Hen IV i 292
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  socordia: (T) gallice cowardise (var. (C: xiii) couuardyse)  TLL ii 27
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