pursuer1 (s.xii1)

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pursuer1 (s.xii1)

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[ FEW: 9,465b prosequi; Gdf: 6,311a porsuivor; GdfC: ; TL: 7,1567 porsivëor; DEAF:  porsivre; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  pursuer n.; MED:  purseuere n.; DMLBS: ]
persuer,  persueour;  purseweour  

s.

1persecutor, afflicter, harasser
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  delivre mei de mes purseweours (Latin: a persecutoribus meis)  251.CXLI.6
lawplaintiff, petitioner, one who brings a suit
( 1334; MS: 1419 )  sez procureurs, attournés, promoteurs et pursueours, pour requere, purchacere, pursuer et mainteigner  425
( 1382 )  qe si homme porte sur autre brief d’appele de felonie [...] en un forein countee ou [...] le defendour n’est demurrant [...] qe le dit procés poet estre adnulle et le pursuour et les conspiratours puissent porter mesme la peyne qe le defendour deust porter  iii 137
pursiwement  pursivre  pursute 
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