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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1499-1512, 1604-1605
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(Smiling,) Smyling, -yng, vbl. n. [ME and e.m.E. smylyng (Chaucer); Smil(e v.] The action of the verb, an instance of this, a smile. Also pl. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xli 129.
Scho … at his vordis mad smylyng In manere of scornyng a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 225.
Vnder smyling scho was dissimulait c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 230.
I turne it in a tendir luke … And him behaldis hamely with hertly smyling c1500-c1512 Dunb. (STS) xxi 58.
Quhair fortoun … dissavis With freyndly smylingis of ane hure a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 1285 (W).
Such smyling, beguiling, Bids feare not for no freets
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