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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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