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Quotation dates: 1393-1420, 1475-1495, 1596, 1695
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Nyn(e)ty, num. Also: -tye, -ti(e, -te(e, -thé, neynty. [ME. nin(e)-, nyn(e)-, nen(e)ti, -ty, early niȝen-, niȝne-, e.m.E. nine-, nynety etc., OE. niᵹontiᵹ.] Ninety. 1393 Slater Early Sc. Texts No. 27.
Mccc nynety and thre 1396 Ib. No. 31; etc.
Neynty c1420 Wynt. v. 243.
Fowr hundyr thousand nynty [C. nynti] sys c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace vi. 107.
Tharto nynte and sewyn 1491 Reg. Episc. Aberd. I. 327.
Nynte 1493 Red Bk. Menteith II. 302.
Ane thousand four hundreth nynthe and thre yheris 1495 Bk. Carlaverock II. 450.
Nyntee 1492 Myll Spectakle of Luf 297/8.
Nyntye 1596 Dalr. I. 78/30.
Nyntie 1695 Glasg. Univ. Mun. II. 521.
October nyntee sixth
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