pravité (s.xiv)

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pravité (s.xiv)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 9,336b pravus; Gdf: 6,365c pravité; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF:  prave (pravité); DMF:  pravité; TLF: ; OED:  pravity n.; MED: ; DMLBS: 2446a pravitas ]
 

This specific sense of ‘physical deformity’ (rather than ‘moral corruption’) also appears in English (OED, sense 3), but only from the mid seventeenth century.

s.

1corruption, deformity
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  [...] hors de commune pur lepre del alme sicum meseyl pur lepre (var. (A: s.xiv) pur la pravité) del cors  i 322 (var.)
prave  praver 
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