A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1579-1603
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Dispraise, -prayse, n. [e.m.E. dysprayse (1509), dispraise, f. Dispraise,v.] Disparagement, blame. —a1586 Maitland Ho. Seytoun 46.
I sall set furth sic doingis als larglie … till his disprayse 1579 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 105.
The same suld be ane greit disprayse to the haill inhabitantis 1603 Moysie 24.
Dispytfull letters … tending mikle to the dispraise of the erle of Mortoun
