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Quotation dates: 1399-1438, 1500-1578
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Honouring, Honoring, -yng, -ine, vbl. n. [e.m.E. honouringe (1535).] Rendering honour. — a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvi. 1150.
Of Sancte Johnne in honoryng ?1438 Alex. II. 10871.
The honoring That thay fand with the nobill king c1500-c1512 Dunb. xliv. 3.
Wemen … suld haif wirschep and grit honoring Off men 1533 Gau 22/3.
The lowine and honorine of God a1578 Pitsc. II. 70/18.
As for praying and honouring to sanctis
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