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2bravery, prowess, a generic term used to express the idealized positive characteristics of an individual, frequently a knight:
(
MS: s.xii2/4
)
vostre proecce [...] mar la veimes
Roland 1731
(
c.1165; MS: s.xiii2
)
si est de l’orguillus hume, que quide bien en sun penser ke nul ne li deive cuntreester tant par s’afie en sa pruesce qu’il me[i]mes se hurte e blesce
MARIEFables 75.15
(
1150-70; MS: s.xii4/4
)
ma proeise e ma franchise Turnera a recreantise
Tristthomas2 580
(
1216-25; MS: s.xiiim
)
Icel Edmund fut appelé Irensyde pur sa grant prowesse
Reis Britt2 22
♦noble, worthy deed:
(
1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin
)
[...] Ai jeo de Roul lunges cunté [...] E des proesces que il i fist
Rom de Rouwace i 168.189
(
s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2
)
Car d'eles (=women) venent les pruesces
Courtoisie 412.103
pruesce (s.xii1/3)