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multitudine (s.xii1)
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multitudine (s.xii1)

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multetudene,  multitudene  
  FEW:  multitudo 6/iii,205b Gdf:  multitudine 5,448b GdfC: ∅ TL: multitude (multitudine) 6,433 DEAF:  multitude (multitudine)  DMF:  multitudine  TLF: ∅ OED:  multitudine n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

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1great number, group (of people): 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Si vunt par altres regiuns Querre terres e mansiuns, Pur la multitudine espartir Que la terre ne puet suffrir  Brut WACE 6759
( MS: s.xiiim )  Si trublé est qui meint en multitudine de gent Que il ne pot [...] entr’els veer clerment  Vitas 81
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  E en tele manere nos chivalers sunt sovent destrus par la multitudine  (ms. multitudne) des archers  vegetius2 22.15
♦abundance, profusion: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Cum grande est la multitudine de la tue dulceur [...]  Oxf Ps ANTS 58.30.23
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Gonorrea ke vient de superhabundance de sperme et qui vient de multitudine de sanc  A-N Med i 238.159
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  nus possom rester a tant de multitudene de temptacions ke vienent si fort sor nus  Ancren2 32.14
2multitude, crowd of people: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1275 )  Tut cel k’il vit avant li ad petit semblé Envers la multitudine k’il ot iluec trové  Purg S Pat berol (Ch) 31.434

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multitude 
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