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ǣwisce

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1 ǣwisce

and ǣwisc?), es; n. Dishonour, shame, foulness :-- Ǣwisce obscenitas, Angl. xiii. 35, 204: An. Ox. 8, 193. Ǣwisc, 7, 265. Ǣwys, 4302: 7, 300. Hē cwæd þæt him tō micel ǣwisce wǣre þæt hē swā emnlīce wrixleden he said that it was too much dishonour for them to treat on such an equal fooling. Ors. 4, 6; S. 178, 16. On ǣwisce (ǣswice? cf. 105, 26) in scandalum, Ps. Th. 68, 23. Ǣwiscu (here or under ǣwisc; adj. ?) ludicra, i. inhonesta (neu timeat scriptor terrentis ludicra linguae, Ald. 214, 19), An. Ox. 21, 6. [Goth. aiwiski; n. dedecus.] æwisce
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ᚫᚹᛁᛋᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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