See warnisoun in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "When those in his troops / saw the siege launched strongly there, / they mistrusted him as a traitor […]",
"ref": "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:",
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