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tencuauhtilia.

Headword: 
tencuauhtilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to insist and support a cause with great enthusiasm, like someone arguing a case in the High Court (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tenquauhtilia
Alonso de Molina: 

tenquauhtilia. nino. (pret. oninotenquauhtili.) insistir y fauorecer alguna causa con mucho brio, como haze el procurador enel audiencia real.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 99v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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