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Quotation dates: 1590
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Prenc(e)dome, n. = Princ(e)dome. — c1590 Fowler II 112/26.
These crymes without the committing of the which he can nocht preserve his prencedome c1590 Ib. 123/17.
Such a one as newlye hes clymmed to the degre of a prencdome c1590 Ib. 136/7, 140/32.
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