How to Search the Quotations
Searches within Quotations allow you to find a specified word,
phrase, or combination of words within the Middle English quotations
illustrating each dictionary entry, which collectively comprise a
corpus of nearly a million snippets of Middle English.
A Quotation search will retrieve quotations that match your terms.
Quotation results contain a link to the Dictionary entry that cites
the quotation and the Bibliography entry for the work that contains
it
Quotations search types
- Quotations including citation
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Searching for Quotations including citation will retrieve
quotations that contain your search term anywhere, both in the text
of the quotation and in the bibliographic information attached to
it. A search for Cambridge will find quotations that are cited in
The University of Cambridge from the Earliest Times to the Royal
Injunctions of 1535 and quotations that contain the word Cambridge.
- Quotations text only
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Searching within Quotations text only will only retrieve your
search term within the Middle English quotations
