effrei (c.1136-37)
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effrei (c.1136-37)

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  FEW:  *exfridare 15/ii,91b / *exfridare 3,293a Gdf:  esfroi 3,461c GdfC:  esfrei 9,527c TL: esfroi 3,1056 DEAF:  esfreer (esfroi)  DMF:  effroi  TLF:  effroi  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  effraium 753c
effrai,  effroi;  esfrai,  esfrei,  esfroi  

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1emotionfright: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Grant fu l’effrei par les ostels  5525
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  De l’effrei e de la pour Del vis li change la culur  6885
♦emotionconsternation, dismay: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  (The king) quant regard (l. regarde) la couele bise (which his wife has donned) A poy d’effrai le cuer n’i brise  694
2din, commotion: 
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Tres ke ele (=the hind) out l’esfrei E vit venir les chens vers sei [...]  1723
a, de grant effrei
1shriekingly, noisily: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  a grant esfrai cuntremande [...] lur viande  8429
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Iceste antiefne od eus chanta [...] A haute voiz de grant esfroi, Disant [...]  17329
en effrei de
1to the disturbance, intimidation of: 
( 1343 )  ceux qi mesnent routes […] en effrai du poeple  ii 141
estre en (grant) effrei
1 to be frightened, scared: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Par lui est toute France en crime et en effroi  i 115.3044
( MS: c.1200 )  Li valle[t] est en grant esfrai, Pour [ad] grant, fuit s'en adés  (G2) 26
♦ emotion to be startled, dismayed: 
( c.1150; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Constantin [...] lur dist Coment la nuit =when he saw Saint Nicholas in a vision fu en esfrei  539
2emotionto be upset, worried: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Bon gré vus en savra[i] [...] E ma mere cent taunt, kin est trop en esfrei  2652
estre en (grant) effrei de (+ inf.)
1 emotion to be agitated, tense about: 
( c.1150; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Touz esteient en grant effrei D’apariler as clers cunrei  1201
faire effrei
1emotionto cause alarm, fear: 
( 1323-25 )  le dit roi avoit mandez son maistre de arblastres a mettre le chastel [...] en sa meyn saunz faire effrei  186
mettre en (grant) effrei
1 emotion to scare, give fright to: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  La clartez qu’il vit entor sei Mist Joachim en grant esfrei. Grant paor ot de la lumiere  324
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Se jo fusse com ore es tu, [...] Bretons mandasse e soldeiers, Qui gaaignassent volontiers; Mult meisse gent en effrei  ii 239.9513
affrei  effreer 
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