A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1637-1643
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Stounding, vbl. n. [Late ME (once) stownntynge (?a1400) lingering, delay; Stound v.1, v.2] a. In fig. context: An instance of astounding or stupefying; a paralysing shock. b. A lingering effect; a remnant, trace. —a. 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 313.
It is a painful battle for a soul … to fight with absence and delays. Christ's ‘Not yet’ is a stounding of all the joints and liths of the soul —b. 1643 Inverurie 306.
Thereafter the pains left her, except some stoundings of the grinding that continued with her … in the same pairts of her body that she was troubled before
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