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

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Deploratioun, -acion, n. [Late ME. deploracyon (1490), L. dēplōrātio.] Lamentation. (Const. of.) —1531 Bell. Boece I. 253.
In deploratioun of this calamite Id. Livy I. 10/20.
The deploracion of sic miserijs 1537 Lynd. Depl. Magd. (title).
The deploratioun of the deith of Quene Magdalene 1570 Sat. P. xiii. (title).
The deploratioun of the cruell murther of James, Erle of Murray

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