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[tençour] (s.xiii3/4)
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[tençour] (s.xiii3/4)

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

s.

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

a.

quarrelsome, 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  Waterford busby 345.S222.1

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See also:

tençable  tençance  tence1  tencement1  tencement2  tencer1  tenceresse  tencerie  tencif  tençonus  tençous  tençun  tençur 
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