nunsavant (s.xii1)

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nunsavant (s.xii1)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 11,196a sapere; Gdf: 5,526b non-savant; GdfC: ; TL: 6,797 nonsavant; DEAF: ; DMF:  non-savant; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
nonsavant;  nounsavant,  nuncevant  126vb  

a.

1lacking wisdom, foolish
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  li huem [...] cumparez est as jumenz nunsavanz  70.48.12
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Que tel conseil creit il est mult nonsavant  (B) 14848
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  les seinz hommes furent devant vus non savanz ke si cher le achaterent  124.31

s.

1one lacking wisdom, fool
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Entendez, nunsavant en pople  99.93.8
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Encor lor serrad destruianz La prospretét des non savanz (Latin: et prosperitas stultorum perdet eos)  1532
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Li nun savant s'en funt lur gas  1978
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xivin )  sicome nounsavanz vous demandent qe quident qe ordre siete en la cote  8.27
nunsachance  nunsachant  nunsachantment  nunsacherie  nunsage  nunsaive  nunsavance  nunsaver  nunscience 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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