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: 1399-1400, 1500-1512, 1569-1586
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Flattering, Flatryng, -ryne, n. [ME. flatering, -yng, flatterunge (a 1225).] The use of flattery. —a1400 Legends of the Saints x. 416.
Quhile be flatryne, quhyl be thret a1400 Ib. xxviii. 307.
I wil nocht … honoure gyf to thi flatryng c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 343.
I had for flattering of the fule feinȝeit so lang a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS xiv. 69.
Flie feinȝeing, flattering, falsheid and dissait
