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Quotation dates: 1541
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(Withcuming,) Wythcumen, vbl. n. [With- prefix and Cumming vbl. n.] The action of coming against or attacking. — 1541 Prestwick B. Rec. 57.
For the wrangus wythcumen apoun hyme in Jonat Smythtis hous … & strak hyme wyth his neif
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