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a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1310 Of here delyt, or Ioyes oon þe leste Were impossible to my wyt to seye.

1537 Inst. Christen Man f. 5^v Neyther any man in the worlde, nor the dyuell hym selfe, coulde euer fynde in hym suspycion of any the leaste crime or offence that myght be deuysed.

1586 E. Hoby tr. M. Coignet Polit. Disc. Trueth xxxvi. 165 Without any one the least woorde that mought be offensiue to chast eares.

a1591 H. Smith Gods Arrowe (1593) v. sig. Q3 One that breaketh any the least constitution of the Pope.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. viii. iii. 391/2 They dare not..to giue way or conniuence to any the least iniustice.

1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII ii. iv. 150 Whether euer I..spake one, the least word that might Be to the preiudice of her present State. View more context for this quotation

1697 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 14 Without receiving any the least assistance from those Guns.

1738 Common Sense II. 204 Under solemn Ingagement never to have any the least correspondence with me.

1824 J. Bentham & P. Bingham Bk. Fallacies Introd. 4 Scarce in any instance will be discovered any the least danger of final deception.

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country i. 27 You must be generous, strain point, and call Victory, any the least flush of pink Made prize of.