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Perpetuitie, -ity, n. Also: -uité, -witie. [e.m.E. and late ME. perpetuitee (1406), F. perpétuité (13th c. in Littré), L. perpetuitas.] Endless or indefinite existence or duration; perpetuity. — 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 595.
Traistyng no thyng bot perpetuitie [Pitsc. -witie] 1533 Bell. Livy I. 118/19.
This werde of perpetuite beand acceppit [etc.] 1562-3 Winȝet I. 22/2.
Conferring the perpetuitie of the ane sacrament anis ressauit with the vther 1563 Orkney Antiq. Soc. II. 70.
[I] all my lands … in feu farm or for rent in perpetuity heritably demit
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