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Quotation dates: 1721-1779
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†INIQUOUS, adj. Also iniquious. Iniquitous, unjust, wicked (Sc. 1782 J. Sinclair Ob. Sc. Dial. 102).Sc. 1721 R. Wodrow Sufferings I. Pref. 7:
The iniquous Laws stand full enough in Print.Sc. 1722 W. Hamilton Wallace iv. i. 56:
A Man of dreadful size, Of threatning Aspect, and iniquous Eyes.Sc. 1746 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1911) 239:
Applying to the King and parliament for relief and reimbursement of said tuo iniquious fynes.Sc. 1779 J. Beattie Scoticisms 18:
The beginning of his history; where . . . he condescends upon other iniquous proceedings, not unlike the crime of Paris.
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