first (n.)
beginning, outset, start
KL V.iii.286[Kent to Lear] from your first of difference and decay
Mac V.ii.11.1[Lennox to Cathness, of the English army] there is Seyward's son / And many unrough youths that even now / Protest their first of manhood [i.e. acting like men for the first time]
TS III.ii.213[Katherina to Petruchio, of his behaviour] That take it on you at the first so roundly
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