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

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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1581-1623

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(Ternedness,) Tarnedness, Tarndnesse, n. [Terne adj.] Sorrow, gloom. —1581-1623 James VI Poems I 179/615.
The first is irkesumness … He gydis the tarnedness [F. chagrin; v.r. tarndnesse] quhiche to eate the self doth neuer faill

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