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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: 1558-1585

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Behaviour, n. Also: behawior, behav-, behawieour, behauour. [Late ME. behauoure (Caxton), e.m.E. behavyour (1538), -iour.] Conduct. Also in pl.1558-66 Knox II. 204 (the life and behaviour of the ministeris). 1573 Satirical Poems xlii. 632 (with courtes behauour). a1578 Pitsc. I. 107/28 (for his singular behavieour). a1578 Ib. 354/19 (the rest of thair behawieouris). 1585 Inverness B. Rec. I. 297 (honest in my behawioris).

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