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† sans fail Obs.
Forms: α. 3–5 saun, 4–5 san, 5 sain, saing, sawm, sawn, 5–6 sam; β. 4 sauntz, 4–5 sauns, sanz, 4–6 saunz, sans, 5 saunce; 3–6 faile, 4 feil, 4–5 fayle, faille, 4–6 fayl, fail, 5 fayll, faill, 6 fale.
[a. OF. sansfail(l) e: see sans and fail n.2]
Without fail; without doubt, doubtless; in ME., a common riming tag.
α1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 8360 Go & seie hom þis Þat hii turne aȝen to me & icholle to hom saun faile [v.rr. samfayle, san fail(l)e, sawmfaile]. 13..K. Alis. 217 Of hire faired, saun faile, He hadde in hert gret mervaile. a1400Arthur 439 Þe Muchelnesse of Men sainfayle Ys nat victorie in Batayle. 14..Sir Beues 4021 (MS. M.) All oure londis Hathe the kynge arested, samffayll, Thorouȝe Brians counsell of Cornwayll. c1475Partenay 1592 [He] both his penon And baner sanfaill Put within the town, so making conqueste.
βc1325Chron. Eng. 285 in Ritson Metr. Rom. II. 282 Ant Luces the emperour, sauntz fayle, He overcom in bataille. c1380Sir Ferumb. 2350 ‘It is now’, quaþ he, ‘sanzfaile to late þer-to to gon’. c1384Chaucer H. Fame i. 188 (Fairf.) And seyde he most vnto Itayle As was hys destanye sauns faille. 1421–2Hoccleve Dial. 461, I feele now, sanz faille, That in this cas yee can nat wel consaill. c1450Merlin 91 Antor ansuerde, ‘This is the childe that the kynge me praide to norisshe of my wif’... And he seide, ‘It is the same saunz-faile’. 1513Douglas æneis i. vi. 61 Ȝe bene in the marchis of Libie, sans fail, Inhabeit with peple vndowtable in battail. c1530Crt. of Love 117 Under the cloth of their estate, saunz faile [rime availe], The king and quene ther sat.
¶ Misused as if = ‘sans avail’.
1597Guistard & Sismond ii. C 4 b, But all his excuse was euin samfayll. |