Middle English Dictionary Entry
sentement n.
Entry Info
| Forms | sentement n. Also sentemente, sent(a)ment, sontiment & (error) sentymetre. |
| Etymology | OF sentement, santement & ML sentīmentum. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Intention; an inclination; (b) personal experience or involvement; personal feeling or emotion; (c) emotion, passion; capacity for feeling or sensation; (d) quality, character, nature; also, a personal characteristic; (e) considered opinion, views; (f) in phrases, with diminished force, as rime tag: as in ~, in effect; in his ~, in his opinion; shortli in ~, in short, in essence.
Associated quotations
a
- c1450(1410) Walton Boeth.(Lin-C 103)p.314 : Gooth before þe goostly sentementes [vr. sontiment; L animique agentis uigorem] A maner sufferaunce corporall For to excite þe gostly myght wiþall.
- ?1457 Hardyng Chron.A (Lnsd 204:Hammond)234/20 : God..Knowyng his herte naked of gode sentement, Lete hym be take to haue his Jugyment.
b
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.13 : To every lovere I me excuse, That of no sentement [vr. sentymetre] I this endite, But out of Latyn in my tonge it write.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.1797 : So wel koude he devyse Of sentement..Al his array, that every lovere thoughte That al was wel.
- c1450(c1386) Chaucer LGW Prol.(1) (Benson-Robinson)69 : But helpeth..Ye lovers that kan make of sentement.
- c1450(?a1405) Lydg.CBK (Frf 16)197 : Ryght so fare I, that of no sentement Sey ryght noght as in conclusioun, But as I herde when I was present.
c
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)3.43 : Ye in my naked herte sentement Inhielde.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)4.1177 : She cold was, and withouten sentement [vr. sentment]..for breth ne felte he non.
d
- ?a1425(c1400) Mandev.(1) (Tit C.16)126/21 : Oþer trees þer ben also þat beren wyn of noble sentement.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)p.74 : Bledud Gabred reigned, expert in song, And in all musike instrumentes..Suche was his cunnyng and his sentementes.
e
- (a1460) Bokenham Sts. (Adv Abbotsford B3)3.700 (v.1:p.37) : Condescendyng therfore to thyn entent, I breefly wil shew the my sentement.
f
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.4331 : He seith, in his sentament, Þer is no fraude fully equipollent To þe fraude..Of a womman.
- a1450(?c1421) Lydg.ST (Arun 119)2467 : But now most I make a digressioun To telle shortly, as in Sentement, Of thilke knyght that Tydeus hath sent.
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)463 : She is a fole shortli yn sentemente That in her beaute is to moche assured.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.Mutability MN (Hrl 2255)103 : I dar conclude as to my feelyng, By confirmacioun as in sentement, Fewe men be stable heer in ther livyng.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)9396 : I shal telle the..What that I fele in myn entent Shortly, as in sentement.
- a1500(?c1440) Lydg.HGS (Lnsd 699)254 : The stori tellith, as in sentement, Ther wer childre..Born with cheynes.