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ordeé1 (s.xii1)
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ordeé1 (s.xii1)

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ordeed,  ordeet; 
pl. ordeez  
  FEW:  horridus 4,487a Gdf:  ordeé 5,616b GdfC: ∅ TL: ordëé 6,1186 DEAF:  ort 1 (ordeé)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

No Anglo-Norman attestations have been found for the literal sense of the word, i.e. ‘dirtiness, filthiness’.

s.

fig.(state of) (moral) uncleanness, baseness: 
( s.xii1; MS: c.1145 )  Consummede seit l'ordeet des peccheurs  Oxf Ps ANTS 45.7.10
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Carnel vie queort ordeé, Spirital: vertuz e bonté  Salemon 8591
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  E hantad les ordeez que sis peres out hantez e guerpid Deu  Liv Reis1 219.22
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiiim )  Chastee [...] Onques ne poet consentir ordeé  Rom rom 902
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  D: Cument enfantassent il (=Adam and Eve in Eden)? M: Sens ordeet e senz dulur  Eluc 21.75
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 )  Que ne seium pur ordeed De lui partit e desevréd, E puis de tut en tut dampnéd  S Edm Pass ANTS 1657

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See also:

ord  ordeiement  ordeier  ordement  order  ordesce  ordure1 
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