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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.

Mansuet, -swet(e, a. Also: -sueit, -sweit. [ME. (Chaucer) and OF. mansuete, L. mansuētus tame.] Gentle, mild, meek.(a) c1450-2 Howlat 83.
The plesant pacok … manswet and mure Ib. 240. 1513 Doug. vii. xii. 143.
Of manswete Diane fast tharby The altar … vpstandis 1533 Boece vi. ix. 204.
Octauius … grewe ane manswete virtuos prince a1568 Bann. MS. 229 a/81.
This myld meik mansuet Margrite(b) 1535 Stewart 55876.
Ane fair ȝoung man … Mansweit and meik c1552 Lynd. Mon. 262.
That prince of peace, moist humyll & mansweit c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus Prol. iii, iii. 708. c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxvii. 9.
Most sueit, discreit and mansueit muse

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