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- 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book XVI, Chapter xv, leaf 342v-343r
- Thenne he sayd to Lyonel A gentyl knyghte haue mercy vpon me and on thy broder for yf thow slee hym thow shalte be dede of synne and that were sorouful for he is one of the worthyest knyghtes of the world and of the best condycyons.
- "Then he said to Lionel: Ah gentle knight, have mercy upon me and on thy brother, for if thou slay him thou shalt be dead of sin, and that were sorrowful, for he is one of the worthiest knights of the world, and of the best conditions."
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- social status, rank
- 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 140
- Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections?---to congratulate myself on the hope of relations, whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?
- 1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund
- Dryasdust puzzles and pokes for some biography of this Beodric; and repugns to consider him a mere East-Anglian Person of Condition, not in need of a biography