A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1490-1513
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Pleni-, Plenytude, n. [Late ME. and e.m.E. (1432–50), OF. plenitude, L. plēnitūdo, f. plēnus full.] The condition of being absolutely full; fullness, completeness. —1490 Irland Mir. I. 127/33.
The tyme that this angell was send was the tyme of plenitude of mercy and of grace ? a 1510 Mod. Lang. Notes XXIV. 110/2.
Hayle Davydes doughter … Fulfylled withe all plenytude of grace 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 58.
That of thy copios fouth or plenitude All mon purches drynk
