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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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Dispising, vbl. n. Also: -pisinge, -pysing(e. [ME. dispising (Wyclif); cf. Despising.] Contempt, scorn. —a1400 Leg. S. v. 113.
The thryd [reasonn] for nedful dispysinge 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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