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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: 1499-1500, 1569-1586

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Fickilnes, Fik(k)ilnes, n. Also: ficulnes. [ME. fekylnesse (Chaucer), e.m.E. ficlenesse (1548).] Fickleness. —a1500 Doug. King Hart 899.
Unsteidfastnes … With fikkilnes a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS clxxv. 28.
Sua full thai ar off ficulnes a1570-86 Ib. clxxvii. 10.
Defamit nocht with fraud and fickilnes

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