Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In old Scots law, a bankrupt who had made a cessio bonorum to his creditors.
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Examples
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Well, you dyvour bankrupt, was the first word, have you brought me my rent?
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Well, you dyvour bankrupt, was the first word, have you brought me my rent?
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"Well, you dyvour bankrupt," was the first word, "have you brought me my rent?"
Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878
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A dyvour [23] buys your butter, woo ', and cheese,
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845
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A dyvour [23] buys your butter, woo ', and cheese,
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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'Well, you dyvour bankrupt,' was the first word, 'have you brought me my rent?'
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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As the redemption of the soul is precious and ceases for ever, so the broken and dyvour (485) man having become a bankrupt, shall never make up or pay his debt to all eternity.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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Away rode my gudesire to his chief creditor (him they caad Laurie Lapraik), to try if he could make ony thing out of him; but when he tauld his story, he got but the warst word in his wamethief, beggar, and dyvour, were the saftest terms; and to the boot of these hard terms, Laurie brought up the auld story of his dipping his hand in the blood of Gods saunts, just as if a tenant could have helped riding with the Laird, and that a laird like Sir Robert Redgauntlet.
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Away rode my gudesire to his chief creditor (him they caad Laurie Lapraik), to try if he could make onything out of him; but when he tauld his story, he got but the worst word in his wamethief, beggar, and dyvour were the saftest terms; and to the boot of these hard terms, Laurie brought up the auld story of dipping his hand in the blood of Gods saunts, just as if a tenant could have helped riding with the laird, and that a laird like Sir Robert Redgauntlet.
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Lapraik) to try if he could make onything out of him; but when he tauld his story, he got but the worst word in his wame — thief, beggar, and dyvour, were the saftest terms; and to the boot of these hard terms,
Redgauntlet 2008
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