devoutour, -trour
corrupted forms of advoutour, advoutrer, adulter, -erer. (Cf. devoterer.) So devoutrie for advoutrie, adultery.
| 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 175 Owre synne to suffre, As deuoutrie [other MSS. aduoutrie] and deuo[r]ses and derne vsurye. 1393 Ibid. C. iii. 184 And ich my-self cyuyle and symonye my felowe Wollen ryden vp-on rectours and riche men deuoutours [v. rr. deuotours, deuoutrours]. |