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Ge-leáflíce

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1 ge-leáflíce

adv. I. credibly, in a manner that commands or allows belief:--Hí heofenan ríce mid Hǽlende ástigon swá swá wíse láreówas geleáflíce secgað (as we are credibly informed by learned doctors), Hml. Th. ii. 258, 29. Ús is tó witonne þætte ꝥ wæs geleáflíce gestihtod þæt Jóseph fór tó Bethlem fram Galilea we are to know that without doubt it was ordained that Joseph went to Bethlehem from Galilee, Nap. 81. II. in accordance with Christian belief. O. H. Ger. ge-louplícho credibiliter.? ge-leaflice
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Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᛚᛖᚪᚠᛚᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.
German
O. H. Ger.
Old High German

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Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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