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

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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1603

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Quentance, -ans, n. Also: quentence, quaynt-, quantance, quyntans. [ME (c1300) and e.m.E. queyntance: cf. Acquentance n.]

1. Acquaintance, personal knowledge, familiarity, entered into or possessed with another. Also transf.Freq. to ma(k quentance, (also one's, ane) quentance, (with another).a1400 Legends of the Saints xxx 85.
He com to this Theodra & mad his quyntans apon fare With hyr
?1438 Alex. i 722.
Ȝit sawe I neuer the king … with sik tythandis, for na chance, Think I to mak my first quentance
?1438 Ib. ii 2902.
And Gaudifere sall with me ga, With Alexander ane quentance to ma
c1420 Wynt. vii 2518 (W).
Thare maid thai speciall quayntance [R. acqweyntawns]
c1460 Alex. (Taym.) 7936. c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace v 672.
[He] hyr besocht rycht hartly of quentance. Scho ansuerd hym, … ‘War my quentance rycht worthi for till pryse, Yhe sall it haiff’
a1500 Sir Eger 1220.
Reverently she made him state, But quantance none other they wate
a1500 Prestis of Peblis 1313.
Of me as freind suppose thow lytle leit, Ȝit for the lytle quantance that we had, [etc.]
a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 2338.
Than kest he quentans to contruf
1535 Stewart 43607.
Quhome with befoir into his lyfe had he Quentance and greit familiaritie
1535 Ib. 51667.
This samin freir … gat … sic quentance and hamlines with all, That he wes welcum in the erlis hall
1535 Ib. 51652. 1567 Sempill Sat. P. viii 28.
For all thi quentance with the quene Thay hound thé to the hangmanis grippis
1603 Philotus 323.
To mak mair quentance vs betwene, I glaidly could agrie
transf. a1568 Bannatyne MS 144a/1.
Rycht fane wald I my quentans mak With Ser Penny

b. The state of being in friendly agreement, friendly relations.a1500 Golagros and Gawane 1120.
Wes newthir casar nor king thair quentance that knew
1550 Corr. M. Lorraine 439.
Nochtwithstanding thai haif menurit, quhilk is contrare ressoun and gud quentence

2. concr. Persons with whom one is acquainted, acquaintances, associates, friends, collectively.?a1500 Remembrance of the Passion 144.
Quhen a man passis bair till ane vnkend land, but quentence, wittall, or money
a1585 Maitland Maitland Quarto MS xvii 19.
For and thy bak be at the wall … Then will thy quentance leif thé all

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