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vedveté (1267)
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vedveté (1267)

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vedvetie;  vefveté,  veffveté;  vefeté,  veftee;  veuté,  veuveté;  veveté;  vesveté,  vesvesté;  veufveté  (vedevtee,  weuveté  BOZ Cont 135.52,  vesneté é (l. vesvet)  ii.cxli_and_cxlii,  visneté (l. visveté)  ii.cxlii)  

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widowhood: 
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Virgine en sa virginité E vefve en sa vefveté  Lum Lais ANTS 11364
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  qe la vedvetie veigne par mort de marit  Mir Just 93
lige, propre, pure vedveté
lawabsolute widowhood: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  a sa fraunche volunté en sa lige veftee (var. (M: s.xivin) pure e lige vedveté) relessa et quiteclama tut le dreit qe ele out [...] en dowarie  BRITT ii 287
( 1293 )  aprés la mort W. son barun, en sa propre vedveté nous granta...  YBB 21-22 Ed I 61
( 1308-09 )  le tenaunt meist avaunt quiteclaime, qe ele avoit relessé en sa pure vefeté  YBB Ed II i 88
( 1310 )  ceste femme sole e en sa legge veveté  YBB Ed II ii 191
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