1emotionto terrify, frighten, scare:
(
c.1150;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Mes veu ai une avision Que anoit m’ad mult esfreiee
1185
♦
emotionto startle:
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
Mes la tregrant matire
(=of J.C.’s love) effroie mon poere engin qi s’affebloie
3370
♦
emotionto take aback:
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
Sa beauté
(=of J.C. on the Cross), voir, le liz
effroie En mai quant matin se desploie
2515
1emotionto be frightening:
(
1273-82;
MS: s.xivex
)
Toivre dount Rome a sa joie, Le braz seinz Jorge qi
effroie, Creté com la mer quant ondoie [...]
1224
1
emotion
frightened, scared:
(
c.1150;
MS: s.xiii3/4
)
Mult furent cil espoenté Esbaï et mult esfreié
884
(
s.xiiex;
MS: s.xiii3/3?
)
Li quens Eleins vient tut esfreez
1694
(
MS: c.1300
) Kant li membroit de enfern e des malurez; Les denz ferroient ensemble, tant esteit effrez
338
2emotionterrifying:
(
1155;
MS: s.xiii4/4
)
Tost fu la bataille jostee Qui lu jor fu mult effree
4022
(
1212;
MS: 1212-13
)
cil qui pas ne croient Des peines d’infer q’eles soient Tant dures ne tant
esfreiés
17569
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