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Old English Dictionary Entry

For-leorning

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1 for-leorning

f. Learning wrongly, error :-- Þæs leásung and forleornung cymþ tó him þe hé hine sylfne déþ tó þon þe hé nis therefore will falsehood and error come to him that he makes himself out to be that which he is not, Bl. H. 183, 34. [Cf. Ger. ver-lernung.] Cf. for-lǽran. for-leorning
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ᚠᚩᚱ-ᛚᛇᚱᚾᛝ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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