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

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First published 1990 (DOST Vol. VII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1577-1578

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Rigor(o)usnes, n. Also: rigour-. [e.m.E. rygorousnes (1526); Rigor(o)us adj.] Severity; inflexibility. —a1578 Pitsc. I 247/10.
The paipis rigourousnes aganis him a1578 Ib. II 25/10.
Seing the gret rigorusnes of the governour … toward him

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