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desestance (1174-75)

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desestance (1174-75)

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[ FEW: 3,54a desistere; Gdf: 2,581a desestance; GdfC: ∅; TL: 2,1575 desestance; DEAF: ∅; DMF: désistance; TLF: ∅; OED: desistance n.; MED: ∅; DMLBS: 630c desistentia ]

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1difference:

( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii^4/4 ) Mes ceste desestance est ke si vous desperez aver victorie de vos gent a pé [...] vous devez eslire hauz lius 97.9

2discord:

( 1230-53 ) icele desestance Ki entre mes suers est hastie (l. bastie) [...] 384

3complaint, distress:

( 1285; MS: s.xiii¹ ) Oez me desestance, Kar en vus est la garisun 375.42

sanz desestance, sanz nule desestance

1incontestably, irrevocably:

( 1174-75; MS: c.1200 ) perdu ad lu rei H. senz nule desestance (var. destance) 1257

( s.xiii^1/3; MS: s.xiii^m ) Par mi le cors li mist la lance, Mort l’abati sanz desestance (var. destance (C,F)MS: s.xiii^4/4,) 5212

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