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: 1657-1658
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Momentuous, a. [Irreg. f. Moment n. 2; cf. e.m.E. momentous (1652) and mod. Eng. momentuously adv. (1748).] Of great importance or moment, important. —a1658 Durham Blessedness Death (1713) To Reader 4.
They reach the least momentuous and most minute things, even the numbring of our hairs a1658 Ib. 72.
Yet the most momentuous of these are but very trifles being compared with … how ye shall die
