MacDuff


Deus Juvat; "God assists".
Virtute et opera; "By virtue and by industry".

Duff

Deus Juvat; "God Assists".
Virtute et opera; "By virtue and by industry".
Deo Juvante; "By God’s assistance".
Omnia fortunae committo; "I commit all things to fortune".
Deus Juvavit; "God has assisted".

Earl of Fiffe

Virtute et opera; "By virtue and by industry".
Deo Juvante; "By God’s Assistance".

Abernathy

Salus per Christum; "Salvation through Christ".

Fyffe (of Dron)

Decens et honestum; "Becoming and honourable".

Kilgour

Gradatim; "By degrees".

Fernie

Quieacens et vigilans; "Resting and waking".

Spens (of Lathallan)

Si Deus, quis contra?; "God with us who against?".

Spence

Si Deus, quis contra?; "God with us, who against?".
(Spence or Kerbuster); "Do good".
Constantia et diligentia; "By perseverence and diligence".
Virtus acquirt honorem; "Virtue procures honor".
Virtute aciquiritur honos; "Honor is acquired by virtue".
"Bold".
Visa per invisafirma; "Things seen are established by things unseen".
Erectus non elatus; "Exalted but not elated".

Spense

Courage et L’Ecosse; "Courage and Scotland".
(He was a General serving the Queen of Bohemia)

Wemyss

Je pense; "I think".

Earl of Wemyss
& March

Je pense; "I think".
"Onward".

Randall

Nil Extra nemerum; "Nothing out of time".

Kinnimond,
Kininmonth

Stabo’; "I shall stand".

Whitelaw

Solertia ditat; "Prudence enriches".

Trail

Discrimine Salus; "Safety in danger". (a victim of a shipwreck in 1418, he escaped death by clinging to a rock out in the sea).

THE ABOVE ARE MOTTOES OF SOME OF THE FAMILIES OF CLAN MACDUFF



The above mottoes were supplied to us for publication
here by Mr. Ted McDuffee, our past Convener.

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