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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1456-1512
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(Tuichand,) Touchand, Twichand, ppl. adj. [e.m.E. touching (Shakespeare).] That affects the feelings or emotions in a way implied by the context. — 1456 Hay I 83/21.
It is mare clere and mare vertuous thing to assaile na to abyde … and mare is touchand to the vertu of hardynes c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 303 (M).
Quhylum I put furth my voce and pedder him callit I wald richt twichand in [OUP tuichandly] talk be I was twys mareit For endit was my innocence with my ald husband
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