1in secret, secretly:
(
c.1136-37;
MS: s.xiiex
)
Si ço
(=rape) [fud feit] cuvertement, Jo voil murir overtement
2657
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
E ki mal fait covertement […] Ne pot faillir n’en seit laidiz
6111
(
s.xii3/3;
MS: s.xiiim
)
Par noit fuit de la contree Covertement e a celee
14
(
1351-52
)
pur les amesner & mettre a fyn solonc lour malveis purpos le plus colourablement & covertement, firent assembler un conseill
ii 238
2indirectly, implicitly, obliquely:
(
1121-35;
MS: s.xii3/3
)
Eissifaiterement
(God) Le fist cuvertement: Es degrez se meteit Dunt chascun ordre esteit
172
(
c.1136-65;
MS: c.1200
)
Ci nos notet covertement Ke le devin commandement […] Ne devreit porloigner nuls hom
3019
(
c.1292;
MS: c.1300
)
acune foiz expressement
(var. (M: s.xivin) apertement) et acune foiz covertement
i 371
3obscurely:
(
1310
)
vous pledez moult covertement, et pur ceo descloez nous la cas
Ed II ii 169
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