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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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Quotation dates: 1475-1586

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Dispit(e)full, Dispytfull, a. [ME. dispitfull (c 1450), f. dispit(e n. Cf. Despitfull.] Of persons, acts, etc.: Scornful, malicious, spiteful.(1) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 207.
The constable a felloun man of wer, … Selbye he hecht, dispitfull and owtrage
c1500-c1512 Dunb. xx. 45.
Be no wayis dispytfull to the peure
1533 Boece viii. vi. 260.
Inemyis that war dispitefull and cruell murdrissaris
1569-73 Bann. Memor. 41.
The treuth declaired that he was but a dispitfull lyer
a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS cv. 39.
Dispytfull poyettis sould not tholit be In commoun weillis
(2) c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 177.
It was weylle knawyn … , xviij scor putt to that dispitfull dede
1531 Bell. Boece I. 41.
Dowall, movit with thir dispitfull wordis, ruschit forthwart … , and slew King Nathak
1531 Ib. II. 15.
Our ennimes … wrocht on us, ilk day, mair dispitfull cruelteis
1558-66 Knox II. 405.
Hard ye evir, my Lordis, ane mair dispitfull and tresonable letter?
a1578 Pitsc. I. 87/1.
Thir mutuall iniurieis and dispytfull consaittis … exasperit baith the parties

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