A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1573-1645
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Incertantie, n. Also: incertentie. [e.m.E. incertainty, late ME. incertaynte (1484). OF. incertaineté (15th c.).] Uncertainty, doubtfulness, unpredictability, indeterminacy, indecision. —1573 Bann. Memor. 295.
His … subjectis, whilkis, be delay and incertantie, behovit still to be vnburdenit with the sumpteous charges of susteining men of weir 1581 Hamilton Cath. Tr. 142 b.
The incertentie of this same is ane caus that sa mony … fallis in the deip pit of desperation 1594 Maxwell Mem. II. 5.
The incertantie of the arryvall of the … ambass[a]douris 1641 Acts V. 497/2.
Thruch the deceat vsit be the bleitchers in lyming therof … and the incertantie of the breadth [of linen] 1645 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 49.
Ay and till they wer sold, without any definite tyme … ; quhilk incertantie micht postpon the full payment many yeirs
