[tençour] (s.xiii3/4)

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[tençour] (s.xiii3/4)

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[FEW: 13/i,228b *tentiare; Gdf: 7,672b tenceor; GdfC: ; TL: 10,186 tencëor; DEAF:  tencier (tenceor); DMF:  tanceur; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: ]
tenceur,  tensour,  tensur;  tensurere; 
c.s. tenchieres  

s.

1wrangler, one who is given to scolding or quarrelling
( c.1305; MS: c.1330 ) Rebatez les clous! Rebatez, vous pleidurs! [...] Rebatez, vous tensurs!  66
( 1382 ) si ascun homme ou femme soit atteint pur tensour (var. (C: 1419) tensurere ) ou tenseresse, soit amesnez al thewe [...]  349
2one who rebukes, chides
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 ) Rebelles tuos, set ebreus dicit ‘obiurgatores tuos’, gallice ‘tenceurs’  65.21

a.

1quarrelsome, contentious, argumentative
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 ) Ki at le visage plain et nulle riens charnu, il est tenchieres, barreteres, mal ensengniés, torchenous et ord  345.S222.1
tençable  tençance  tence#1  tencement#1  tencement#2  tencer#1  tenceresse  tencerie  tencif  tençonus  tençous  tençun  tençur 
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