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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1456-1482
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Tra(i)stnes, n. [North. ME traistnes (Cursor M.), traystnes (Rolle).] Trust, faithfulness. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xxx 805.
& dout & trastnes greu thane To richtwise & to sinful man 1456 Hay I 290/22.
The thingis that suld be in a gude emperoure … First … that he be full of traistnes and worthynes, as gude Catholyk anent God and haly kirk 1482 Fam. Rose 147.
And atour, for the mare kyndnes, traistnes, ande securite the saide Donalde sall mary … Margret [etc.]
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