A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1460-1599
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Manful(l, a. [ME. (14th c.).] Manly, courageous and upright, brave, resolute.c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 2051.
To loue men for virtue and nobilnes Syne honour thame for manfull excellence a1500 Bk. Chess 1009.
Euery manfull knycht 1513 Doug. i. viii. 2.
The manfull Troian Eneas 15.. Clariodus iii. 1954.
He is manfull big of brane and bone a1578 Pitsc. I. 231/3. a1578 Ib. 133/13.
He had allis manfull men baitht be sie and be land in Scottland as … [there were] in Ingland a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xlvi. 109. c1590 Fowler I. 99/70.
By his great proof of manfull mynde
