A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1608-1659
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Ut(t)ering, Utring, vbl. n. [Late ME and e.m.E. vtteryng (c1400), uttering (1428), vttring (c1449); Ut(t)er v.] Giving utterance to, speaking. — 1608 Lett. & St. P. Jas. VI 136.
Kything the malice of my hart by the uttering of onreverent speiches 1616 Inverness Rec. II 147.
Johne Cuithbert, cordenar, for vtering misreverent speichis in fensit court, is judgit in amerciament 1659 Glasgow B. Rec. II 413.
To discharge all maner of persones from vtring any … incivill speaches to the sojours
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