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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1490
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Attentioun, -cioun, n. [ME. attencioun (Chaucer), e.m.E. attention (Shaks.).] a. Intention. b. Attention. — c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 152.
To giddyr ay ȝeid thir twa campiowns Of felloun fors and frawart attenciouns c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 43/27; c1490 Ib. 44/4.
A person in his prayere suld haue gret attencioun and thocht
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