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: 1572-1637
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Pin-, Pyning, ppl. a. [e.m.E. and ME. pining (1583), earlier pynande (1387–8) tormenting, afflicting; consuming, wasting. Cf. Pinit,ppl. a.] a. Suffering. b. Exhausting and wasting. —a. c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxxv. 8.
Thy punysmentis & plaigis reteir Frome me, pure pyning pennitent —b. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 63.
That he suld … be consumit with pyning seiknes 1587 Carmichael Etym. 32. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1891) 218.
Some pining and mismannered hunger that maketh me miscall … Christ
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