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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1560-1643

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Banning, Baning, vbl. n. [ME. banning (c 1300). f. Ban v.] Cursing.1560 Peebles B. Rec. 268 (to abstene fra bannyng). 1562–3 Inverness B. Rec. I. 97 (for bannyng and wedling of him). a1578 Pitsc. II. 133/10 (quhair banning or sueiring was). 1591 Edinb. B. Rec. V. 47 (for suppressing of flyting, banning, and swering). 1612 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 326 (ansuerit and said, with bannyng, that … ). 1643 Ib. II. 58 (to inhibit cursing and baning).

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