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▪ I. † spouse-breach1 Obs.
Forms: α. 3 spus-, spousbruche, 5 spousebriche, spowsebrige. β. 3 spus-, 4 spous-, 4–6 spouse-, 5 spowsebreche, 6 spous-, 6–7 spouse-breach.
[f. spouse n. + breach n., after OE. ǽwbryce, ME. ewe-, eu-, eaubruche1.]
Adultery. Also transf. (arch. in quot. 1922).
αa1225Ancr. R. 56 [David] forȝet him suluen, so þet he dude..one Bersabee spus bruche. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 4504 He..huld hire in spousbruche in vyl flesses dede. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 128 Who so euer were atteyntid of Spowse-brige, he sholde lesse both his eighyn. c1430Hymns Virgin (1867) 47 Oonis he saued a weddid wijf, In spousebriche þat hadde doon mys.
βc1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 30 Lecherie, spus⁓breche, Roberie, Manslechtes. c1315Shoreham iv. 395 Of lecherye comeþ..Commune hordom, spousbreche. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 89 No trespas among hem is i⁓punisched so grevousliche as spouse breche. c1420Chron. Vilod. 743 Þe furst day of his crownyng, In to spousebreche he fell anon. a1476H. Parker Dives & Pauper (W. de W. 1496) iii. x. 373/1 He forbydeth the wyll & the consent of herte to lecherye & to spousebreche. c1550R. Bieston Bayte Fortune A vj b, Spousebreche with sum is counted not a myte. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. (1597) 150 We seuerally are..arayned Of Cuckoldie, of Spous-breach, and of Bastardy. 1637Heywood Royall King iv. iii, Whence might this distaste arise? From any loose demeanor, wanton carriage, Spouse-breach, or disobedience in my daughter?
transf.1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. xviii. xliii. (Bodl. MS.), Þei [elephants] fight neuer for females noþer knoweþ spouse breche. Ibid. xviii. lxvi, Leopardus is a cruel beeste and is gendred in spowsebreche of a parde and of a lionas. 1922Joyce Ulysses 47 He [sc. a dog] rooted in the sand,..a pard, a panther, got in spousebreach.
▪ II. † spouse-breach2 Obs. rare.
[Cf. prec. and eaubruche2.]
An adulterer.
c1315Shoreham i. 2001 Þat on may spousebreche by-come For defaute of þet oþer. a1325Prose Psalter xlix. 19 Ȝyf þou sest a þef, þou ran wyþ hym, and laid þy porcioun wyþ spouse-breches. |
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