A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1556-1585
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Permanence, -ens, n. [e.m.E. and late ME. permanence (a 1450) continuance, abidingness.] a. Permanence, continuance, abidingness. b. Appar. only Sc.: Steadfastness. —a. 1556 Lauder Off. Kings 28.
Hov kyngis hes no erthlie permanence —b. a1568 Bannatyne MS 246 a/23.
Be of hummill mynd with permanens To thoill … with paciens 1572 Satirical Poems xxxiii. 25.
My gluifis … of fre liberalitie … My lais and mailȝies of trew permanence a1585 Maitland Quarto MS xxxix. 58.
Bot for leill love and constant permanence … Moir nor in me … Scho sall not find
