"autour" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: autours [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} autour (plural autours)
  1. Obsolete form of author. Tags: alt-of, obsolete Alternative form of: author
    Sense id: en-autour-en-noun-XM0LRZNX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1534, A Necessary Doctrine and Erudition for any Chrysten man, Set Furth by the Kynges Maiestye of Englande. ⁊c.:",
          "text": "For truely men be to theym ſelues the autours of ſyn and damnation. God is neyther autour of ſynne, nor the cauſe of damnation.",
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          "ref": "1555, Peter Martyr of Angleria, translated by Rycharde Eden, The Decades of the Newe Worlde or West India, London: […] Guilhelmi Powell:",
          "text": "Fyrſt therfore to ſpeake of Spayne, ⁊ by the teſtimonie of oulde autours to declare the commodities therof: Plinie a graue ⁊ faythful autour, in the laſt boke ⁊ laſt chapiture of his natural hiſtory greatly commendynge Italy aboue al other contreys, giueth the ſecond prayſe vnto Spaine, aſwel for al ſuch thynges as in maner the heuen can geue ⁊ the earth brynge furth for the commoditie of this lyfe as alſo for the excellente wittes of men ⁊ Ciuile gouernaunce.",
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