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Quotation dates: 1399-1453, 1504-1505
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Haffing, -yng, -yne, vbl. n. [Haf(f. v.] = Having vbl. n. — a1400 Legends of the Saints v. 120.
Of riches the haffynge Is nocht ill, bot the ill spendinge 1453 Misc. Spald. C. V. 49.
For haffyng round of burde and treis c1420 Wynt. iv. 1991 (C).
Qwha that habundis … in til gud thewis, Leaute, wit and gud haffynge c1420 Ib. 2004.
He may be callit a gentil man, That wertu and fayr haffyne can 1504–5 Treasurer's Accounts II. 287.
For … haffing of them [ropes] on burd
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