adv. Sc. Also 5–6 sumpart, 6 -pert, 6, 9 -pairt. [f. SOME a.1 4 b + PART sb.] Somewhat; to some extent.

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1456.  Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 14. Suppos it be sum part subtile to understand, settis [= set ye] nocht by.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, lxix. 47. It dois my spreit sum part confort.

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c. 1550.  Rolland, Crt. Venus, I. 38. The day was sumpart set with weit.

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1581.  N. Burne, Disput., To Rdr. As to my auin Ansueris…, I haue sumpairt amplifeit and inlargeit thame.

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1898.  Ld. E. Hamilton, Mawkin, vii. 91. ’Twould make the road somepairt easier.

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