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Quotation dates: 1550
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(Tenacité,) Tenascité, n. [e.m.E. tenacité (1526).] Persistence, obstinacy. — 1550 Reg. Privy S. IV 153/1.
For his tenascite and pertinessite in halding of oppynionis concerning the faith … contrare the tenor of actis of parliament for the quhilk he was abjurit
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