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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1531-1570
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Advertising, vbl. n. (aduertessing). [f. Advertise v., corr. to rare e.m.E. advertysing (1530).] Notification, intimation, warning. 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. liii.
Thay gat advertising … that thay wer doum beistis 1548 Corr. M. Lorraine 243.
As I fynd ony advertysing gud to writ to your graice 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 111/21.
[The] cause that the counsel of Ingland gettis sa haisty aduertessing of the priuitate that is amang the lordis of Scotland 1563-1570 Buch. Wr. 51.
This aduertising being schawin … to my lord regent, yit he sufferit pacientlie
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