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Quotation dates: 1399-1475
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Cunnandly, adv. Also: cwnn-, cun-, con(n)andly. [Northern ME. conandly. Cf. Cunnand,ppl. a.] = Cunningly. a1400 Legends of the Saints xviii. 1469.
Of quham here I haf translat The story, thocht it be nocht cunnandly a1400 Ib. xxx. 402.
With the abbot son scho met, & hyme ful connandly scho gret c1420 Wynt. v. 4295.
Huchown … Has tretyd this mar cwnnandly Than suffycyand to pronowns am I c1460 Wisd. Solomon 780.
Thai can nocht hald thar continans, na gang in the way cunandly c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace i. 248.
Bot he sat still and span full conandly, As of his tym, for he nocht leryt lang
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