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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1600-1699
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(Murne-,) Mournfuily, adv. [e.m.E. mournfully (Shakespeare).] In a manner calculated to cause grief, deplorably, grievously. — 16.. Analecta Scotica II. 163.
Thus mournfully treating her husband, making him suffer want two years
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