Noun: contemplaunce
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Dative
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[…] er he hadde any speche / With hye god, that is oure lyues leche / He fasted longe, and was in contemplaunce[.] / Aaron, that hadde the temple in gouernaunce […] ([…] before he spoke / With God on high, who is physician of our lives, / He spent a long time in fasting and contemplation. / Aaron, who governed the temple […]) [1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Somnours Tale”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 81, verso:]
Nouns inflected like contemplaunce
contemplaunce,
giltines,
wordes of tocome,
busihead,
meritote,
aqua vite,
paradys,
Pendragon,
smokynge,
medkniche,
noblesse,
smattrynge,
fidelite,
tolysnysse,
unmanhood,
chierte,
cranage,
cronyng,
tolætenysse,
capcioun, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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