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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1466-1494, 1585-1699
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Giffar(e, n. Also: gifar, gyffar, gyffer. [ME. gyfer, gifer (a 1340), f. Gif v.] A giver. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxvii. 1609.
Throw mycht of giffar of all grace 1466 Acts Lords Auditors 3/2.
The letter … thai decerne of na vale becaus the gifar tharof is deide c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace xi. 1464.
God, that gyffar is off grace 1494 Acts Lords Auditors 199/1.
Archibald Halyburnetoun, feare of the saidis landis and giffare tharof a1586 Lindsay MS. 8 b.
God and … Marie, quhilk is gifar of all graice 16.. Hist. Kennedy 56.
Bayth … the giffar and resaiffair
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