Hwōnlīce

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

hwōnlīce

Add; I. for a little while :-- Mīn sylfes gāst wæs hwōnlīce ormōd worden defecit paulisper spiritus meus, Ps. Th. 76, 4. II. slightly, little. (l) with adjectives :-- Hwōnlīce gelȳfede menn men slightly endowed with belief, Hml. Th. i. 566, 28. Hwōn-līcor minus (compta), An. Ox. 1015. (2) with verbs, where action is slight in operation or result:-- Hwōnlīce (wōnlīce, 2, 55) hwapelaþ sensim scaluriat, An. Ox. 1890. Scortlīce and hwōnlīce (wōnlīce, 2, 235) strictim et summatim (commemorandum), 3656. Hwōnlīce sum-matim (expletis exemplis), 3878. Ic and mīne dohtra . . . hī ǣfre tihton tō þīnre geþafunga, þeáh de ūs hwōnlīce speówe (though our success has been slight), Hml. S. 8, 34. Þā þe hwōnlīce understandan magan hū micel wīte is þæt man on āmānsumunge sié qui minus intelligere possunt quanta pena excommunicationis, R. Ben. 54, l. Tō-dæg wē habbad hwōnlīce be hlāf, ac tō-merigen wē sceolon habban genihtsumlīce (cf. quare de panis inopia vester animus contristatur ? Hodie quidem minus est, sed die crastina abundantes habebitis, Gr. D. c. 21), Hml. Th. ii. 172, 2. hwonlice,hwon-lice