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novice (1212)

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  FEW:  novicius 7,209b Gdf:  novice 5,540b GdfC:  novice 10,213b TL: novice 6,866 DEAF: DMF:  novice  TLF:  novice  OED:  novice n. and a.  MED:  novice n.  DMLBS:  novicius 1940a
 

The non-religious sense of novice (i.e. ‘a beginner, somebody who lacks experience’), well-attested in Continental French, is not found in Anglo-Norman.

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1eccl.monasticstatusnovice, person who has entered a religious order but who has not yet taken vows
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Qui s'osast moustrer davant li N'aproecher nis a la meison Ou ert la congregation Des dames, ne moine ne frere, Ainteime (=much less) icil qui onqore ere entre els traitié comme novice  1277
( MS: s.xiii )  novicius: novice  171
( s.xiv1/4; MS: s.xivex )  pur ceo que eus ne voleyent my[e] estre santz abbé, elustrent de eus meimes un chanoyne qu'out a nun Roger, qui fust novice en l'ordre  12.279
chançun des novices
chançun
noef#2  novation  novel 
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