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Quotation dates: 1533
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Manerlie, a. [ME. (14th c.) and e.m.E. manerly.] Well-mannered, polite, modest. — 1533 Boece vii. i. 220 b.
That the pepill mycht haue ane consate … of his nobilite, he gaif him to be manerlie and curtes in cumpany 1533 Ib. viii. xi. 275.
The maist parte of the counsell affermyng that Vortigerne was humane and manerlie
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