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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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(Plaintive,) Plentive, n. [e.m.E. plaintive, playntyve (1550–3), e.m.E. and ME. playntyf (a 1400), pleintif (1436), plantife (1560), etc., AF. pleintif (1278), f. as Plaintif a.] A complainant. — 1654 Glasgow Trades House 314.
Contraversie … anent ane illegall cours … in the … electing of the masters. … The said plentives had producet ane lyte quhilk they alledge [etc.]
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