errance (1150-70)
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errance (1150-70)

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  FEW:  errare 3,240b Gdf:  errance 3,327b GdfC: ∅ TL: errance 1  DEAF:  herance H357 DMF:  errance  TLF:  errance  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
 

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1error, wrongful belief: 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  D’itel errur, de tel errance Ne ruis certes ja delivrance  204.163
( s.xii4/4; MS: s.xii4/4 )  Jo desir mult l’amendance D’iceste toe fole errance (=belief in sorcery)  1916
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (King Edwin) jeta le pais de errance  80
2wrongful behaviour: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  nul n’i vit en luxure, En tort ne en errance; lai tenent e mesure  C 137
aveir errance
1to be in error: 
( 1150-70; MS: 1225-1300 )  Pez’a qu’avez eu errance; Jo meimes fu en dutance, Nut e jur pur li en aguait  1646
estre en errance
1to live wrongfully: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  [...] Pur aemplir del tut lur orz putages. En cest guise sunt Hebreus en errance  (B) 13698
( s.xiii2/4; MS: c.1275 )  Ore ne seies mais en errance: En Damedeu met ta fiance  327
2to be in a dangerous situation: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  ‘Deus!’ fait Richard de Luci, ‘Cum sui en grant errance! Si li reis d'Escoce seust ceste faisance, N'en avrium triewe ne pais  791
mettre en errance
1to lead astray: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  [...] E veit que cil de Flandres l’unt mis en errance  79
♦ theol. to lead astray, into temptation: 
( 1165-80?; MS: s.xiiiin )  La dame dunc se tresturna Envers le malfé fierement; Dit: '[...] Pur chaun ke mez en errance Enprendra Deu de tei vengance'  133.253
( MS: c.1300 ) Jhesu Crist, Sire, gardez nus, Ke nus ne prenge li leos Ne nos mette en errance. Mais traez nus, beau Sire, a vus  274r
♦mil.to confound, bring to ruin: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ço fud Waltier le fiz Robert, [...] Ki primes justad as Flamens e mist en grief errance  1011
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