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Quotation dates: 1399-1400, 1560-1616
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Suspect, Suspek, n.1 Also: suspecte, suspec. [ME and e.m.E. suspect (Chaucer), med. L. suspectus.] = Suspicio(u)n n.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxvi 1014.
Suspec had he That thai … Suld sla hyme 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 2364.
Thairfoir gude Lord I pray ȝow hartfullie Tak na suspect, nor think na fault in me 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 7264.
Thairfoir my Lord … Haue na suspect betuix me and ȝone knicht c1590 Fowler I 161/4.
Although this poysning pest, … boith the cyteis and the land assayle, And terrefyeis with dangers and suspect, Yet [etc.] c1590 Fowler I 222/1.
By fals suspect … The humble offers of my humbld mynde Ar otheruyse constructed then I ment 1609 Craig iii 17.
Thogh time and absence breed suspect, what than? 1616 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 225.
I have hearde nothing that might move me to have the least misconceytte of anything you have done; I thynk that no light suspecte can settle in eyther of us(b) a1568 Scott xxxiv 141.
Fle fra suspek, Or than … Ȝour natouris ȝe neglek, And wantis ȝour wittis fyve
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