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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1637
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Tuto(u)ring, vbl. n. [e.m.E. tutoring (1589).] Guidance, disciplining. — 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 216.
Let me not be well, if ever they get the tutoring of my comforts 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1894) 268.
I am in Christ's tutoring here. He hath made me content with a borrowed fireside
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