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- noun Plural form of
servant .
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Examples
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Shakespeare & Richarde Burbage, servaunts to the Lord
The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson
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(Though nothing they deserve), and servaunts all to beating fall,
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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Thomas Wattson Esquire one of the Tell'rs for the chardges of himselfe and his servaunts in his yorney w'th the saide Ladye
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A Treatise, wherein is plentifully declared how needeful it is for the servaunts of God to manifest and declare to the world: their faith by their deedes, their words by their work, and their profession by their conversation.
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"And than after the presentacion of the seid supplicacion, there were made many blank chartres; and alle the men of every crafte of the cite as wele allowes and servaunts as the maisters, were charged to come to the Yeldhalle, to set there sealis to the seid blank chartres."
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I dowt him not to be neere the lif of Excellence as you proclaime him when his meanest servaunts are of some waight you saw my lord his porter give entertainment to vs at the gate in Latten. good phrase. whats the mr then. when such good p (ar) ts shine in his meanest men.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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Sire Roger of Norbury tresorer, and Sire Gilbert of Wyghton countroller, that thei schulde ordeyne thereupon remedie; whiche be the vertu of the kynges comaundement, ordeyned alle manere officers of houshold, and what service every officer schulde have, and what every officer schulde take, and what servaunts every officer schulde have, and what the servaunts schulde take: and whan alle the ordinaunce was made and rad before the kyng in presence of the worschipfull fadres
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"To William Kempe, William Shakespeare, and Richard Burbage, servaunts to the Lord Chamberleyn upon the Councelles warrant dated at Whitehall xv. die.
Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Charlotte Endymion Porter 1900
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