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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456-1460
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Dispising, vbl. n. Also: -pisinge, -pysing(e. [ME. dispising (Wyclif); cf. Despising.] Contempt, scorn. — a1400 Legends of the Saints v. 113.
The thryd [reasonn] for nedful dispysinge a1400 Ib. xxxvii. 9.
This warld in dispysing He ourecome 1456 Hay II. 58/3.
Throu his … dispising of the vice of avarice c1460 Thewis Wysmen 226.
[To be] our hamly to folk lawly Causis dispising comonly
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