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Quotation dates: 1668
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(Spiting,) Spyting, vbl. n. [Late ME spytyng (1460).] The action of insulting a person. — 1668 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. II 417.
[A complaint made by John Cunynghame … against John Ferguson … anent] ane high insolencie committed be him upon the said Johne Cunynghame, baylie, in calling him a lyar and spyting him and all his kin, and that when he had threatned to imprison him for the saids opprobrious … expressions he became the more insolent
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