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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1662
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Broudned, ppl. a. [f. broudin Browdin ppl. a.2] Strongly attached or fond. —1662 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 225.
[The child] is . . only about tuo years old, and so wedded and broudned upon her . . that to take her away out of her custody would . . be the losse and death of the child