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vedveté (1267)

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

vedveté (1267)

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

s.

widowhood
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  Virgine en sa virginité E vefve en sa vefveté  11364
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  qe la vedvetie veigne par mort de marit  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  ii 287
( 1293 )  aprés la mort W. son barun, en sa propre vedveté nous granta...  21-22 Ed I 61
( 1308-09 )  le tenaunt meist avaunt quiteclaime, qe ele avoit relessé en sa pure vefeté  Ed II i 88
( 1310 )  ceste femme sole e en sa legge veveté  Ed II ii 191
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