A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1560
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Crabitnes, n. Also: crabyt-, crabbitnes. [ME. crabbedness (1413).] Crabbedness; bad humour.a1400 Legends of the Saints xl. 1285.
Tharfor lefis ȝoure crabitnes c1420 Wynt. vi. 2415.
Off ire, felny, and crabytnes All tyme he wes sene partles ?1438 Alex. ii. 614.
Luke ȝe take nocht in crabitnes, For na thing that my brother sayis 1456 Hay I. 85/10. 1456 Ib. 151/30; etc.
Ane other is … full of ire of crabbitnes of his nature a1500 Taill of Rauf Coilȝear 526.
Lat se how we may … catche crabitnes away c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 71/16.
I haue haldin ire and crabitness ourlang in myn hert 1533 Gau 15/26.
Striff, pleis, and crabitnes and dissentione 1551 Hamilton Catechism 9.
Of lesum crabitnes necessare till judgis 1551 Ib. 79. 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 5998.
The cruell minde and als the crabitnes Of this ill man
