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langur (s.xii1/3)
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langur (s.xii1/3)

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langor,  langour,  languor,  langure,  languur  
  FEW:  languor 5,163a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  langor 10,62b TL: langor 5,141 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  langueur  TLF:  langueur  OED:  languor n.  MED:  langour n.  DMLBS:  languor 1550a

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1med.(state of feebleness and decline due to) illness: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  Langur ne gute nen avra Qui ceste pere portera  Lapid 256.1617
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Car de langor de parleisie Languit toz les jors de sa vie  Dial Greg SATF 15507
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (an inflammation) Soz la gorge entur le col fu, Dont la dame a tel mal eu K'ele jeut et fu en languor  S Audree1 1923
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Tantost chai en grant langur [...] Il en mort subitement  Mir N-D 94.16
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1330-60 )  Lé maladies que aveinent [E] en langor le cors teinent  Vernac Lit 305.6
♦lawleave for non-appearance in court due to illness: 
( 1260; MS: c.1300 )  Si un homme seit assonié de mal de lit, e les chevalers ly eient doné langur un an e un jor [...]  Brev Plac 124
( c.1275; MS: c.1275 )  ke commune loit soit entre li demandant e li defendant [...] forpris langur, bataille e grant asise  Winchester2 44.63.8
♦fig.illness, disease: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Quant sa boche de ben parler Fait langor de pechié saner  Salemon 9602
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  Kar justise i aveit. [...] Or n'i ad nend de ço kar tut est en langor  GUISCH 297
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Quant hoem se peine de sun tresor Por amasser argent e or E ne vout de ceo ben fere, Ceo est un langur ki est en terre  Pet Plet ANTS 1038
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  Ceo (=vanity) est del mund la grant langur U se delitent nuit e jur  Mir Just 5.5
2emotion(state of feebleness and decline due to) languor, passiveness: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Langur de tun quer Dais finement oster Ke peresce est clamé  CATO ANON ANTS 651
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  travaille [...] fet homme sei mesmes reposer, de langur est allegeance, [...]  BOZ Cont 142
3emotionlove-sickness, suffering in love: 
( MS: s.xiii2/4 )  La vostre permenable amur Est ma duçur e ma langur  Dulcis Digby 78
( MS: s.xivin )  L’amur de vous continuel Langur me done assiduel  Dulcis Harley 77

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See also:

languir  languissement  langurer  langurus 
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