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Quotation dates: 1500-1614
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Grit(t)umlie, adv. Also: grittumelie. [Var. of Gret(t)umly, after Grit a.] Greatly, exceedingly, highly, much. 1535 Stewart 6127.
Rycht grittumlie the Britis thankit than … this nobill Vespacian 1535 Ib. II. 498 heading.
How King Constantyne was grittumelie commouit 1540 Acts II. 358/1.
Tharthrow we ar gritumlie and enormlie hurt 15.. Clariodus ii. 1604.
Ȝe ar beholdin grittumlie To the Greine Knicht 15.. Ib. iv. 1079.
He ferliet grittumlie quha it suld be 1569-73 Bann. Memor. 7.
I praise my God grittumlie, that hes hard my prayer 1572-5 Diurnal of Occurrents 4.
James the fourt … [was] gevin grittumlie to bigging of schippis 1584 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 345.
The commoun and wechtie effairis of this burgh ar grittumelie incressit 1614 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs II. 457.
The same to tend grittumlie to the hurt, inorme, and lesione of his maiesties haill lieges
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