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Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

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f. Contemptuous, insulting language :-- Se eádmóda biscop ðe wé ymbe sprecaþ wæs swiðe geþyldig wið þwyrum mannum and him ne eglede heora hospsprǽc ac forbær blíðelíce ðeáh ðe him man bysmor cwǽde the lowly-minded bishop that we are talking about was very patient with perverse people, and their contemptuous language did not vex him, but he cheerfully bore with it, though he was reviled, Homl. Th. ii. 514, 11. hosp-spræc