Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1934 (SND Vol. I).
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BALLANCE, v. To hesitate, scruple.Fif. 1715 J. Master of Sinclair Memoirs Insurr. Scot. (Abbotsford Cl. Publication 30) 3:
For my own part, I don't ballance to say that I wish . . . we could have fallne on some method to have made ourselves rid both of Church and Kirk for a time.
