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Quotation dates: 1641
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Wansonsie, adj. [Wan- prefix and Sonsy adj.] = Unsonsy adj. Mischievous. — 1641 Dundonald Par. Rec. 490.
George Smyth and Agnes Lauchland … had sclandered her by saying that shee was a wansonsie witch lown
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