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▪ I. † reddour Obs.
Forms: 4–5 reddure, -our, (4 -owr, 5 -ur, Sc. -oure), 4 redd(e)re; 5 redur, (-yur), Sc. -oure; 5 riddour. See also raddour2.
[a. ONF. reddur, redor, reidur, etc. (mod.F. raideur, roideur), f. redde, rede, etc. (mod.F. raide, roide):—L. rigida rigid.]
Severity, strictness, rigour; also, harshness, harsh treatment.
1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5357 Þat day..Sal noght be shewed but ryghtwysnes, Wyth gret reddour til synful. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 313 He bated nevere contenaunce, noþer reddere of his þouȝt [L. de animi rigore]. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 57 To do reddour alwey without grace or mercy. c1470Harding Chron. xcvii. ix, That they put nought reddour ne punissyon..On trespassours that dyd violence.
▪ II. reddour
variant of raddour1. Sc. Obs. |