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Ge-wemmedness

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1 ge-wemmedness

Add: I. physical, impurity :-- Ðá ðe Críste folgiað on hwítum gyrlum; and hí standað ætforan his ðrymme bútan ǽlcere gewemmednysse, Hml. Th. i. 90, 2. I a. corruption, decay, death :-- Gewemmednysse corruptionis, i. mortis, An. Ox. 3999. Hé búton ǽlcere gewemmednysse wuldrað mid Gode ... him nán þing wiðinnan ne eglað ǽnigre brosnunge oððe gewǽcednysse, Hml. Th. ii. 552, 24. II. moral, corruption, pollution, impurity :-- Gewemednysse corruptionis (humanae spurcitiis carens), An. Ox. 3712. Mid þon gewunon þǽre gewemmednesse synna and mána full, Bl. H. 75, 6. II a. of improper sexual intercourse :-- Geheald þás þíne þínena wið ǽlcere gewemmednysse, Hml. Th. ii. 478, 10. II b. an impure action :-- Hí férdon on heora ídelum lustum and on gewemmednyssum, Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 15.
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Runic Inscription

ᚷᛖ-ᚹᛖᛗᛗᛖᛞᚾᛖᛋᛋ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Bl.
Blickling Homilies
Hml.
Homilies (Ælfric or other)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Ælfc.
Ælfric
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