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tresplus (1273-82)

tresplus (1273-82)

 
  FEW:  plus *9,102a Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  plus (tresplus)  DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

adv.

(forming a superlative adjective) most (of all)
( 1273-82; MS: s.xivex )  tot soit il li tresplus sage  Ross ANTS 4493
( 1397; MS: s.xivex )  La tresplus belle q'unqes fuist humeine [...] C'estoit la fole peccheresse Heleine  GOWER Traitié 385.x.1
( c.1400; MS: s.xv1 )  Mais quant on veult fair un excellent suppellatif, donque l’en ajoint cest mot ‘plus’ ovec cest mot ‘tres’ ou le positif, si come ‘tres plus bon’, ‘tres plus mauveis’  Barton1 132.27
au tresplus tost que
as soon, quickly as
( 1396 )  [...] affin qu’ilz en ordenent, decident et determinent [...] au tresplus tost qui faire le pourront  Engl Dip Pract  ii 574

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See also:

plus  tres1 
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