destance (1174-75)

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destance (1174-75)

[ FEW: 3,99b distare; Gdf: 2,657c destance; GdfC: ; TL: 2,1759 destance; DEAF: ; DMF:  distance; TLF:  distance; OED:  distance n.; MED:  distaunce n.; DMLBS: 697b distantia ]
destaunce;  distance,  distaunce,  disttanz  

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1discord, quarrel
( 1190-1210; MS: c.1300 )  Com plus est greindre la destance E greindre serra la vengance  4723
( 1272-74 )  graunt destaunce e privé cunseil de mortel cuntet cumence a lever en la cité  11
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  en mesme la manere soit fete puralee [...] ou destaunce est entre eux en queus feez [...] le tenement est  i 319
( 1324 )  que pur si petite chose destaunce ne sourde entre nous et vous  252
2difference, distinction
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  tant grant distance Entre esperit d’omme e de beste  14550
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  si acun communer voille fere outrage et prendre plus qe il ne devera, en tel cas est disseisine, et jalemeyns trespas, solom lour difference (var. (M: s.xivin) distaunce)  i 343
3spatial_or_temporaldistance
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  L’aliance entre eus [...] distance de liu ne poet departir  1146
( c.1280 )  eient les amis jur de fere li venir sulump les [sic] destance des leus, e si hors de tere, quarante jurs  i 233
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  Mes si les barouns de teles femmes [...] eint esté destourbez par aperte maladie ou par distaunce del lu et del tens, si qe [...]  ii 17
( 1347-48 )  il ne poet my aprocher as dites courtes [...] pur la distance des lieus  ii 205
sanz nule destance
1indisputably
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  perdu ad lu rei Henri senz nule destance  1257
estre en destance
1lawto be in dispute
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  si deus seignurs soint en destaunce  ii 41
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