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Old English Dictionary Entry

For-sewenlíce

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1 for-sewenlíce

comp. -lícor; ad contemptĭbĭlĭter, turpĭter :-- Swá he forsewenlícor biþ gewítnod for Godes naman, swá his wuldor biþ máre fór Gode the more ignominiously he is tortured for the name of God, the greater shall his glory be before God, Homl. Th. i. 486, 23. for-sewenlice
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚠᚩᚱ-ᛋᛖᚹᛖᚾᛚᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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