compassion (s.xiii2/4)
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compassion (s.xiii2/4)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,973a compassio; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,138c compassion; TL: 2,625 compassïon 1; DEAF:  compassïon; DMF:  compassion 1; TLF:  compassion; OED:  compassion n.; MED:  compassioun n.; DMLBS: 404a compassio 2 ]
compacion,  compaission,  compassione,  compassioun;  conpassion,  conpassiun;  cumpassiun  

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1compassion: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  ke il en eient […] de eus compaission (var. (BN: s.xiv1) compassion)  88.1
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  il en averoit compassion et pité  131
( 1414-15 )  Qe pleise a lour dit Sire eier compassion as empov[er]issementz des ditz Comunes  iii 255
♦sympathy: 
( 1303 )  nous avoms grant compassion de l’estat de la dite abbeye  iv 520
2med.squeezing together (? ): 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Quant li sanc vient des gencives, si en ist par la compassion et par la confrication des gencives  i 206
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