Meanings
plural losengers
- obsoleteA 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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Frankish*lausungu“deception, flattery”
- Old Frenchlosenge“flattery”
- Old Frenchlosengier
- Middle Englishlosengeour
- Englishlosenger
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").
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