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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1666-1667
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Unbidding, pres. p. [e.m.E. vnbid (1598) to cancel a command or invitation; Bid v.] Without bidding. — 1666-7 Blakhall Narr. 10.
[He] did runne out, as if the house had been burning about his eares, unbidding her adieu
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