outrément (1190-1210)

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outrément (1190-1210)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 14,10b ultra; Gdf: 5,607b outreement 1; GdfC: ; TL: 6,1443 outrer (outreement); DEAF:  outre (outreement); DMF:  outrément; TLF: ; OED:  oultrely adv.; MED:  outreli adv.; DMLBS: ]
oltreement;  otreement,  otrément;  oultreement,  oultrément;  ousterment,  oustrément;  outerment,  outreement,  outreiement,  outriement;  ultrément;  utreement,  utreiment,  utrément,  utreyment,  ottoirment,  outrelment  Ed II vii 197 uutrément  39  

Rather than the adverbial form of outre (primarily an adverb, although it can be used adjectivally) this word should be interpreted as deriving from the adjectival use of the past participle of outrer1, i.e. outré. As a result, the second syllable of outrément is accented (see also DMF). Spellings like oltreement or outreement support this interpretation. However, forms such as outerment and ousterment, if genuine (i.e. not an editorial misreading of a manuscript abbreviation), favour the interpretation of the word as a tautological construction outre /outer + -ment. The OED and MED provide examples of similar constructions in English. Both forms (with or without an accent) are found in modern editions.

adv.

1temporalfinally
( 1214; MS: 1214-16 )  S'ot rendu lu dreit jugement Pur sei meisme outreément  2598
2quantitativefully, wholly
( MS: s.xiiiex )  E de ce ke ele aveit plus de saver ke nule autre fu ele outreément dame de sai, si k'ele pout e sout e vout par la vertu del Saint Espirit governeri toz ses sens e totes ses volentez a la volenté Deu  104
( 1334 )  desicom nostre Seignur le Roy est tenuz a rendre as heires dedeinz age, et en sa garde esteauntz, lour heritages ottoirment quant il vendrent a lour plein age  ii 87
( c.1420-89 )  si lé boys [...] sount coupez et outerment wasté le graunté n'avera assise  i 2.n5
utterly, completely
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  E ses terres e tuz sis fiez Oltreément m'abanduna  14739
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  A Fraunceys se myst establement, Le secle lessa utrément  1662
( c.1371; MS: s.xv1 )  l'argent que jeo avoie versz Oxenford est oultrément despendeuz  377.30
( s.xiv2; MS: c.1400 )  toutes icestez chosez qe sount avaunt ditez, trop bons y sont, mes si sovour n'eient, sicom outrément saunz fruit i sont (Latin: sed si saporem non habent, quasi penitus infructuosa sunt)  60.7
( 1379-80 )  enemys, lesqueux a grant multitude s'afforcent [...] d'ouster oultreément la lange engleise  iii 75
( 1405-06; MS: s.xv1 )  la dite matire par interrupcioun du dit Maistre H[enry] de dite traité d'accorde estoit outrément quassé  126.34
excessively, unduly
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Les reis lur meins estendirent As choses e as rentes utreément Des sugez torcenusement  301
3above all
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  A ceo fet a saver utreiment Ke le Canun pleinement defent Ke nul prestre face tel overe  10419
tut outrément
1fully, wholly
( 1260; MS: s.xiii3/3 )  si l'enqueste pase pur lui, ele recovre dowarie tot outrément  77
completely, utterly
( 1260; MS: s.xiv3/3 )  Sire W. defend tut otreément ke ceo ne fu unkes le fet son ancestre  164
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (a pregnant woman) par une nutee tut utreément Ne senti vie ne muvement  M221
( 1390-1412; MS: s.xv1 )  le dit R. de B. fait grand dolour q'il ne lui avoit tout outrément occis et lui manace de vie  3.20
( a.1382; MS: a.1382 )  la count de Athetelle qe principalment amast le roi [...] se lessa tout outrément  2.38
outre  outrer#1 
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