warnisoun
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Northern French warnison, from warnir (“to protect, provision”); equivalent to warnysshen + -isoun. Doublet of garnisoun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /warniˈzuːn/, /ˈwarnizun/
Noun
warnisoun
- (rare) A band of armed men; a troop.
- c. 1375, “Book X”, in Iohne Barbour, De geſtis bellis et uirtutibus domini Roberti de Brwyß […] (The Brus, Advocates MS. 19.2.2), Ouchtirmunſye: Iohannes Ramſay, published 1489, folio 34, recto, lines 325-327; republished at Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, c. 2010:
- And quhen þai off his warniſoun / Saw þe Sege ſet [þair] ſa ſtythly / Þai myſtrow[it] him off tratouꝛy […]
- When those in his troops / saw the siege launched strongly there, / they mistrusted him as a traitor […]
References
- “warnisǒun, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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