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- noun Obsolete spelling of
servant .
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Examples
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And whiles the seruante was gone to the towne to bye victualls, the good father demaunded of him, of what countrye in Spaine hee was, whiche the knighte francklye confessed.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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“Wherefore goe Seargeant (quod he) make roume emonges the multitude, that the maister may enioye his seruante.”
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Seigneur cette tienne seruante s'oingt, & dois estre quelque iour Diable & maling Esprit comme toy. '
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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Nan B | | ancres seruante | | ah | achte C | | bi B | | 164. richte C | | to B | | iset hure B | | ant C | | clað B
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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