pensée

a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246)

reflection, meditation, faculty of thinking (late 12th century)

Bone pansée (“wise reflection”).

worry, concern (late 12th century)

late 12th century, Eneas, ms. A (second edition)

the mind as the seat of thinking (c. 1200)

amorous attachment (c. 1200)

manner of thinking (c. 1215)

an idea coming up in one's mind (c. 1220 in Anseïs de Carthage, 332)

the guiding idea of a decision made or one's will (c. 1274 in Adenet Le Roi, Berte, 1644)

moral disposition (first quarter of 13th century)

an operation of the mind (since 1636)

idea expressed by an author in a literary or artistic work (since 1621)

1621, Étienne Binet, Essai des merveilles de Nature, chap. X, p. 201

thinking, worldview of an author

Travestir la pensée d'un auteur.

a pansy (plant) (c. 1460)