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Quotation dates: 1685
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(Join-,) Joyning, n.2 Also joyning-work. (See quots.) — 1685 Memor. Govt. Royal Burghs (Aberd., 1685) 39.
To use all means that may crush ambition, brybing or unlawfull suteing for places of magistracy, which is called by the Latins crimen ambitus, and in some cities thir fourty years bygone being termed joyning. By this factions are made [etc.] 1685 Ib. 41.
Now this ambition and joyning work is for the most part carried on with the inferiour sort of people that have hand in elections, as some deacons of trades
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