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losenger en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlɒzɪnd͡ʒə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English losengeour, losenger, from Old French losengier, losengeor (“flatterer”), from Old French losengier (“to deceive, flatter”), from Old French losenge (“flattery”), from Frankish *lausungu (“deception, flattery”). Doublet of leasing ("lying, falsehood").

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A flatterer or deceiver.
   • To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done. 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, page 60:

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