Middle English Dictionary Entry
straunǧenes(se n.
Entry Info
| Forms | straunǧenes(se n. Also straungenese. |
| Etymology | From straunǧe adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Coolness, distance, aloofness, haughtiness; hostility, estrangement; maken ~, to cause difficulty; also, behave in a hostile way; (b) elaborateness, intricacy, fanciness; difficulty of language; (c) strange behavior, licentiousness, dissipation; also, glossing AL extraneitas: ?strangeness.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Sh.(Manly-Rickert)B.1576 : Ye han maad a manere straungenesse Bitwixen me and my cosyn.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)1.2217 : Ne were Schame..Out of her hertis daunger were exiled, Al straungenes and feyned fals disdeyne.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)4056 : All is for thi wikkednesse, For that thee [Danger] faileth straungenesse.
- a1450(?c1430) Lydg.DM(1) (Hnt EL 26.A.13)187 : Come forth a-noon my lady & Princesse..Nowt mai a-vaile ȝowre grete straungenesse.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.4225 : There is..no damage mor pereilous to endure Than in frenshepes whan there is straungenesse.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)1.5574 : He shal be contraire & daungerous, And off his port ful off straungenesse.
- c1460(a1449) Lydg.2 Merch.(Hrl 2255)188 : I erryd foule to speke of straungenesse Of tweyne allyed, so kneet in stabilnesse.
- c1450(?c1408) Lydg.RS (Frf 16)4829 : Ther was no wight that sayde nay Nor made thoo no straungenesse.
- c1450 ?C.d'Orl.Poems (Hrl 682)22/660 : Y wolde haue..The reward which to trewe loue shuld habounde, Of which ther is alle straungenes on the ground In yow.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)327/12 : Alas, fayre lady..I have nat deserved that ye sholde shew me this straungenesse.
- (a1474) Stonor1.136 : Ye and oþer wurshipful haven lete be moved ayenst me by Thomas Ramsey..wherof to me-werd he makith gret straungenese.
- c1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Tbr A.7)22156 : Telle me thy name, off gentillesse, With-out eny straungenesse.
- a1500(c1435) ?Lydg.DM(2) (Lnsd 699)13/76 : What is worth hih porte os [read: or] strangenesse? Deth seith chek-mat to al sich veyn noblesse.
- 1532(?a1400) RRose (Thynne)3611 : No straungenesse was in him sene, No more than he ne had wrathed bene.
b
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.414 : Precious clothyng is cowpable..for his straungenesse and degisynesse.
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)prol.62 : That he made, it is ful hard alsoo, Right for straungenesse of his dyrke langage.
c
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)479 : Strawngenesse: Extraneitas.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)131/22 : Mennys hertis ben enstraunged from the obeisaunce of holy chirche for the straungenes of his mynisters; For nowadays thei be not weddid, but thei vse vnlawfull and dissolute lecheryes.