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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1564-1567

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(Pretence,) Pretense, v. [e.m.E. pretense, pretence, (a 1548) to offer, (1548) to ‘cloak’, (1592) to assert, back-formation f. Pretencit ppl. adj. or f. as Pretence n.] tr. a. To assert, profess falsely. b. To purpose, intend. —1564–5 Cal. Sc. P. II 119.
The overthrow of religion ys pretensed, the Frenche to be reconciled, there aide agane to be craved
1567 Reg. Privy C. I 525.
To mak publicatioun … to all our soveranis liegis that nane pretense ignorance of the same

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