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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1533
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Gluth(e)ring, -yng, vbl. n. [Northern ME. glothering (c 1325).] Flattering; fair speaking. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xii. 127.
Bot his thret na his gluthryng Scho set bath in til a lyne a1400 Ib. I. 600.
Fra his luf I neuirmare sall Be departyt … for gluthring of giftis gret c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 1257.
He our-commys … in glutherynges, And thrught arte fallas of spekynges 1533 Boece viii. xii. 276 b.
Vtheris deuisit to mete the gluthering of Hengist be sic like aduiacioun and polecie
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