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soer1 (c.1135)

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The form seorur is a cross reference to the following entry:

soer1 (c.1135)

seer,  seor,  seore,  seour,  ser,  sere,  seur,  seure,  sewre;  soere,  soeur,  soeure,  soier,  soire,  sor,  sore,  souer,  sour,  soure,  soyr;  suer,  suere,  suore,  sur,  sure  (soor  Dest Rome1 344 ),
c.s. seorur,  seorure,  sereur,  seror,  serour,  serur;  soeror,  soerour,  soreur,  soror,  sorour,  sorrur,  sorur,  surrur,  surur  (scrour (l. serour)  GOWER Mirour 21441)  
  FEW:  soror 12,115a Gdf: GdfC:  seror 10,666b TL: seror 9,532 DEAF:  seror  DMF:  soeur  TLF:  soeur  OED: MED: DMLBS:  soror 3138c

s.f.

1 femalekinship sister, female sibling
( c.1135; MS: s.xiv1 )  Je n’a seror ne je n’a frere  S Marg wace (T) 285
( s.xiiex; MS: 1272-82 )  Femme avoit mout leal, Ser  (ms. sere) le roi Galahal  Cor Lai 508
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  (Guibourc to Rainouard) Baisez mei, frere; ta soror sui naissant  Ch Guill 3550
( 1260-70; MS: s.xiv1 )  Home deit en nule manere Beiser femme, fors sa mere, Ou sa seore  Man pechez 6369
( 1311 )  Lez seours sunt ovelment heirz; e veez vous com disouelement  YBB Ed II x 46
( 1390-99 )  le dit David ad payé les obeduz soun pier et soun frere et lez amobours pur soun sewres  RLiR 58 481
( 1415 )  Item je devise et ordeine a madame de York ma soire une anel doré ové une grand diamond  Reg Chich ii 16
( 1439-68 )  aprés qi mort le dit manoir de Brunham [...] descendist a Elizabeth et Anne Rodenhale, come as soers et heirs le dit Thomas  Rot Parl1 v 402
fig. equal, counterpart
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  adounc chete la pasture en hochepot entre les communers [...] issint qe chescune acre i seit fete autri soer  BRITT i 387
2 femalekinship daughter-in-law
( MS: s.xiii-xiv )  Nurus: suore, brue  TLL ii 16
3 politeness (address to a woman as a term of affection) my dear, beloved
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  (Guillaume to Guiburc) ‘Seor, dulce amie’  Ch Guill 945
4 fellow, one having a close relationship to one another
( 1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Fraunceys, ke les oyseus trevist E oy le chaunt, a sun frere dist: 'Nos soeurs oyseus lur Creatur Loent'  S Fran ANTS 3753
5 femalemonasticeccl. nun, female member of a religious order
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  car d'icest siecle trespassa a joie d'iloec al tierz jour od mesme icele soerour qui de seint Piere fut nomee  Dial Greg SATF 15470
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Les sorurs (var. (W: s.xivin) surs ) de [l]'abbeie Apele a sei  S Modw 3111
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  le diable enuai deus souers de religion  Ancren2 107.5
( c.1300; MS: 1330-40 )  nul autre destourber Qe les freres (= of Order of Fair Ease) a lur pleysyr Ne pussent a lor sueres venyr  Pol Songs 133.48
( 1423 )  As tressages commons de cest present parlement suppliont humblement les meistre, freres, sores, et poveres languissantz, del hospitall de Seint Leonard d'Everwyk  Rot Parl1 iv 249
belle soer
politeness (address to a woman as a term of affection) my dear, beloved
( 1185; MS: s.xiii1/3 )  'Ben avez dit,' fait la reine. Atant apele une meschine. 'Bele sor, pur Gandés alez, Delivrement ça l'amenez!'  Proth ANTS 339
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2 )  'Sire, me prengez a femme,' dist la meschine. ‘Bele soure,’ dist Boves, ‘ceo estre lessez, Jeo ne le frai pur kanke vus avez’  Boeve 2875
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  'Ore vus partez, beles sorurs (var. (W: s. xivin) surs ) De la defaute n'aiez tristurs'  S Modw 3615
soer germaine
femalekinship full sister, sharing both parents with a sibling
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex )  Magdaleine Ové Martha, sa sorour germeine  GOWER Mirour 13049

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See also:

soereté  sororité 
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