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vou2 (1190-93)

vou2 (1190-93)

vue,  veue  

s.

predicament
( 1190-93; MS: s.xiv1 )  La (= at the tomb) s'est ly vesquens aresté. Il n'alast avant pur nul plait. Pur le pecché ke aveit fait, Deus l'enjeta de ceste veue E ly diable l'unt resceue Veirement en lur cumpaignie  S Edm Life ANTS 3673
mal vou
ruin, perdition
( s.xiiex; MS: s.xiii2 )  qui pur cristien s'avue Liverez ert a male vue  S Geo 48
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  il va a male vue (var. (E: s.xiiim) voue), L'amur de Deu ad il en fin perdue  Anc Test (B) 6674
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