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suddenty Chiefly Sc. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈsʌd(ə)ntɪ|
Forms: see sudden.
[a. OF. sodeinete (mod.F. soudaineté), f. sodein sudden: see -ty.]
1. = suddenness 1; occas. an instance of this, an unexpected attack.
1388Wyclif Wisd. v. 2 Thei schulen wondre in the sudeynte of heelthe vnhopid. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 23 That he micht, be untraist suddante, the more cruelte exerce. a1586Montgomery Misc. Poems xlv. 9 Come, gentill Death, and that with suddentie. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 166 Feiring the suddantie and craftines of the cuntrey men. Ibid. II. 135 The Bartains in respect of that suddentie, resist and defend al tha mycht. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xx. §12 These short dangers and troubles, by reason of their suddainty did worthily make the King wakefull. 1633Sir A. Johnston Diary (S.H.S.) 15 The sudainte of it confounds me yet.
b. Phr. of (a) suddenty, on or upon (a) suddenty, in or on a great, in sic a suddenty, etc.: all of a sudden, (so, very) suddenly.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 19 As he was drawand, þer happend of Sodentie a fyssh to com in-to þe bukett. c1557Abp. Parker Ps. xc. 254 As early grasse in sodentye doth change hys hue and plight. 1582–8Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 77 The regent thus endit his..dayes in sic suddainty..as ye haue heard. 1587Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. IV. 167 The said Maister, upoun suddentie, devisit the secund [device]. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 165 Thairfor vpon Angus he brekis in vpon a suddentie. 1633Sir A. Johnston Diary (S.H.S.) 13 That it pleased God upon a sudainty..to separat thos saules quhilk he had joined out of his love. 1650R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (Bannatyne Club) III. 120 He left the west in a great suddentie and demi-disorder. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xviii, It is not likely that he should have joined them on a suddenty. 1824― Redgauntlet let. xi, My father's tongue was loosed of a suddenty. 1876Robinson Gloss. Whitby 189/1 It cam doon amang us all on a suddenty.
2. (In Sc. legal language.) An unpremeditated outburst of passion. on suddenty, upon suddenty, rarely of, in (a) suddenty: without premeditation.
1469Acts Parl. Scot., Jas. III (1814) II. 95/2 Gret slachteris quhilkes has bene Richt commone..of late baith of fore thocht felony and of suddante. 1496Reg. Privy Seal Scot. I. 10/1 The slauchter of John Thomsoun committit apon suddante alanerly. c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 519 Gif..it..out of ane chaud-melle, or suddentie, that ilk ane of thame slay uther. 15..Aberd. Reg. (Jam.), Spokin in suddanty, in the first motioune of yre. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 46 b (tr. Stat. Dav. II.), Crymes (committed be ane suddentie, or ane chaud-mellee). 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 36 He who slayes any upon suddentie and inadvertence. 1678G. Mackenzie Crim. Laws Scot. i. xi. §xi. (1699) 64 Chaudmella, or Slaughter committed upon suddenty. 1776Sir D. Dalrymple Annals Scot. I. 4 If he..committed slaughter of suddenty. 1785Arnot Crim. Trials (1812) 195 That there is no distinction between..deliberate assassination and killing of a suddenty. |