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

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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1500

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Wra(i)thly, Wrethly, adv. [ME wraþeliȝ (Orm), wrethly, wrathli (both Cursor M.), wrathly (Rolle).] Angrily; furiously; resentfully.a1400 Legends of the Saints xxix 303.
Forton … Turnyt hyr bak one hym wrathly
?1438 Alex. i 1780.
Wraithly [F. Iriéement] on thame ar thay gane
a1500 Henr. Age & Yowth 66.
This galȝart grutchit and began to greif And on his wayis wrethly he went
a1500 Golagros and Gawane 298.
Mony wedou Ful wraithly sal weip
a1500 Golagros and Gawane 563.
Thai ruschit vp rudly … with suerdis thai swang … Thair with wraithly thai wirk
c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv 237.
Wallace was grewyt … wraithly till it he went … Be fors off handis it raist

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