nuncreable (c.1165)

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nuncreable (c.1165)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 2/ii,1301b credere; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: 6,780 noncrëable; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
noncreable,  nouncreable  

a.

1incredible, unbelievable
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  les noveles merveillouses et [...] a poi noun creables  212.15
untrustworthy
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  commencer e non parfaire Fait home vein e non creable  1925
2incredulous, refusing to believe
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  lez lettres lui firent tourner a dolour, et le fist nouncreable, qar le roi [...] defendi al messager [...] qe riens de sa femme ne del enfaunt parlast  212.8
theol.unbelieving, lack (true) faith
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  Tant est fol peoples nuncreables Que en veines choses nunverables Unt lur creance e lur espeir  190.17
( MS: c.1300 )  O tu deus ki es sire de tutes choses, ki les nuncreables angeles mesis en emfern  26v

s.

1theol.unbeliever, one who lacks (true) faith
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  A cest mot (=doctrine of transubstantiation) lors, com non creable, Icele se prist a sozrire  2192
creable  mescreable  nientcreable 
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