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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1531-1533, 1606
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Irruptio(u)n, -cioun, n. [e.m.E. irruption (1577), L. irruptio.] A hostile irruption or incursion. Also fig. — 1531 Bell. Boece I. 24.
Suspekand na thing les than sic irruptioun of ennimes 1533 Id. Livy II. 258.
Be haisty irruption of the horsmen, all the array … of Sabynis was … brokin 1533 Boece vii. v. 231.
Thay suld mak nane irrupcioun in the Romane provinces 1533 Ib. vii. 235.
Fra all parties Romanis drewe to resist the irruptioun of Scottis 1606 Birnie Kirk-b. viii.
Jacob, … sustening in his campe a double irruption by death, … depriued of Deborah … and Rachel
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