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Gud(e)moder, -mother, n. Also: guidmoder, gwd-, guid-, goodmother. [Gude a.] A mother-in-law.(a) 1491 Acta Conc. 172/2.
The accioun … persewit be Niniane Bannachtyne … aganis Agnes Necouwale his gudemoder
1531 Bell. Boece II. 199.
Thay fand thair gud-moder participant thairwith
1533 Boece iii. xxi. 122 b.
The agit quene his gude moder … had maryit Venusius
1549 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 275.
Sua [that] tha … ressaue nane of his guid moderis houshald in thair houise
1572-5 Diurn. Occurr. 19.
Alexr Cant … was slane in the nycht … be his seruand and his guidmoder
1593 Edinb. Test. XXV. 242 b.
Jonet Symmer, gude moder to the said Robert
1602 Dundonald Par. Rec. .
His wmquhile gudmoder, Geilis Boyd
(b) 1568 Glasgow Dioc. Reg. I. 187.
Katerine Paterson, his gwd mothir, brukand it induring hir wedowheid
1579 Edinb. Test. VII. 206.
He ieuis to. Johne Mckynnay … ane brew caldroun equalie betuix him & his gude mother
1581 Cath. Tr. 161/26.
The horribil incest with his gudmother
1597 Edinb. Test. XXX. 170.
I leif to my guidmother alsmeikle fyne frenche blak as wilbe hir ane paitlote
1608 Dundonald Par. Rec. 170.
Scho desyrit hir gudmother to tarie with hir
1625 Elgin Rec. II. 189.
Androw Kay ordeand to pay 40 s. for the buriall of his good mother
1646 Baillie II. 340.
I pitie much his mother … and his goodmother

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