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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.

Quotation dates: 1596-1610

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Naife, Naive, a. [F. naïf, fem. naïve: cf. e.m.E. naif(e (c 1655), naïve (1654).] Natural in manner, simple, unaffected. —1596 J. Galloway in M. Napier Mem. J. Napier (1834) 296.
Naither too spair and restrained nor yit too large and dissolute, both not affectat bot naturall and naife
1600-1610 Melvill 75.
[He] was nocht rustic nor auster, bot sweit and affable … with a modest and naive gravitie

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