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niceté (c.1245)

The form nyseté is a cross reference to the following entry:

niceté (c.1245)

nicesté,  nicetee,  nyceté,  nyseté  
  FEW:  nescius 7,104b Gdf:  niceté 5,495a GdfC: TL: niceté 6,634 DEAF: DMF:  niceté  TLF: OED:  nicety n.  MED:  nicete n.  DMLBS:  nescientia 1909b

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foolishness, ignorance
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  Li uns dient par reproce K'il sa femme pas n'aproce Par simplesce e niceté  S Edw paris ANTS 1265
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  ausi par sa negligence (var. (M: s.xivin) e par sa niceté) en sa entente, sicum en cas ou la dreite espouse ne encusa unques le secunde contract vivaunt soen baroun qi la weyva  BRITT ii 274
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  ceaux qi [...] autre larcin funt par nicesté ou quointise des meins  Mir Just 26
( 1323-25 )  molt de gentz tindrent a niceté qe le roi ou ses privez voudroient apreister nulle flote ou force de gentz pur envoier en Gascoigne  St Sard 64
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  si lui prodomme die ascune folie ou niceté  Sz Med1 9

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See also:

nescient  nice1  nicement 
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