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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1475-1533, 1605
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Scornfully, adv. Also: skorn(e)fully, -ie. [ME and e.m.E. scornfullich (c1380), schornfully (1447); Scornful adj.] Contemptuously, mockingly, scornfully. — c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi 159.
Thar commownd thai off Scotland scornfully a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 990 (Asl.).
His cumly cors celestiale Thai cled with purpour silk richt scornfully ?a1500 Remembrance of the Passion 291.
Jesu, that tholit the knightis to … salus thé skornfully 1533 Bell. Livy I 242/24.
Ane of the equis cryit skornefully, it was propir to Romanis erare to mak ane vane manassing, than to gif batall 1605 Dundee Chart. 171.
Johne … abused & vilipendit the … bailie, be lifting of his leg skornefullie & flinging at [him]
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