nientage (s.xiiiin)
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nientage (s.xiiiin)

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  FEW:  *ne gentem 7,86b Gdf:  noiantage 5,513b GdfC: ∅ TL: nïentage 6,657 DEAF: ∅ DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅
 

As Burrows notes in his edition (p. 117), this word has been also read in previous editions as vieutage, a variant of viltage [viltage FEW XIV, 449a] or as mentage.

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1worthless person?: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Mult fait de vus a merveiller Que vus le vulez escuter Quant vus ne i veez personage, E ne semble el fors nientage (l. mentage? vieutage?) [...] Il est mentiere e nunsavant, Ne creez rien que il voist disant!  14826
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