A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1490-1599
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Indigence, -ens, n. Also: indegens. [ME. (1387–8) and OF. indigence, L. indigentia.]
1. Want of means: poverty.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xviii. 319.
Grant syne to my indigens Thi proteccione 1504 Dunferm. B. Rec. 146.
That scho had nocht to leif vpon bot ane forlande … , quhilk indegens wes sufficientlie previt 1513 Ib. 298.
For greit indigens, falt, and mistir 1535 Stewart 17961.
Sum honest place, Quhair tha micht leue but indigens or stres 1599 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 47.
To support the indigens of … [a] burges of Aberdeen, sumtyme of honest rank(b) c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 56/5.
To mak helpe … to the wakar persone, and to releve his indigence, necessite & faltis c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxvii. 2.
Quho thinkis that he hes sufficience Of gudis hes no indigence 1533 Boece xii. xiii. 478 b.
The assege almaist was brocht to fyne, the castellanis suffering grete penurite & indigence c1552 Lynd. Mon. 5458.
Sic cruell weir sal be … , The quhilk sall cause gret indigence
2. Lack or scarcity of something.1513 Doug. i. Prol. 72.
So inuentiue of rethorik … Thow art, … Tharto perfyte but ony indigens 1550 Reg. Privy C. I. 109.
Tending … to putt this realme to utir indigence of silver and gold 15.. Clariodus iv. 2474.
Of eardlie joy thair was no indigence
