Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
treason .
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Lyrics: Faintly arisen/tenderly torn dreamlike decision, unconsciously born firm in conviction yet tempt me they can deny me of trust and a demon I hide a drive to be less than the fortunate a dream in the casket of eden crave that which you do not desire cling tightly to your deepest fear I rose the greatest monument again and again I bear the greatest treasure of time and a word treson spilt on the loneliest of graves desperation dealt the losing hand again wherein lie the purpose of the day?
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Lyrics: Faintly arisen/tenderly torn dreamlike decision, unconsciously born firm in conviction yet tempt me they can deny me of trust and a demon I hide a drive to be less than the fortunate a dream in the casket of eden crave that which you do not desire cling tightly to your deepest fear I rose the greatest monument again and again I bear the greatest treasure of time and a word treson spilt on the loneliest of graves desperation dealt the losing hand again wherein lie the purpose of the day?
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Anyone else involved in this treson should come clean and turn some sort of states evidence.
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Þa wes treson a þas landes. for æuricman sone ræuede oþer þe mihte.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Item given to the ringers one gunpowder treson day 0 1 0
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Thomas Turbevyle for treson was drawen and hanged.
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Also in this same yere the duchesse of Gloucetre was arested and put in Holt, for she was suspecte of treson; and a clerk that was longyng to here, whiche was clepyd Roger Whiche, was taken for werchynge of sorcery ayens the kyng, and he was put into the Tour; and after, he was brought into Poules, and there he stood up on high on a scaffold ageyn
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Also in this same yere was a man drawen and hanged, hedid, and quarterd, and sett up at diverses places, for he tok up bestes and all maner vitaill in the cuntre in the kynges name, and was but a thef, and so robbyd the cuntre with treson.
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Also the forseid children were brought ayene to the kyng; and the lady Spenser was accused, and here brother, that was called duk of York, of gret treson for the forseid children; and the cause was, for they seyden that the eldere chyld was trewe kyng.
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And the kyng besette the park alle aboughte that the Scottes schulde never escaped: but thorugh treson of the
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