A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1494, 1580
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(Luving,) Loving, -ynge, vbl. n. [ME. louinge (Chaucer); f. love Luve v.1 Cf. also Lufing.] Loving, love. (But the interpretation ‘praise’ (Loving vbl. n.1) is also possible in each case.) —a1400 Legends of the Saints iii. 766.
And that I ȝarne oure althinge, To be and dwel in thi lovynge c1420 Ratis Raving 1290.
Thir women kind hir [Beauty] louis mast And spendis mekile gud in waist To have loving of hir, that faire, And sum tendis to be hir aire (c 1580) Alex. ii. 5366.
Louing 1494 Loutfut MS. 26 b.
[The peacock] blithly schew him to the warld to hav loving & to be plesand til his wif
