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HETE

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1 HETE

m, HATE, hatred, enmity, malignity, malice, spite:-- Hete nequitia, Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 22, 18. Ús hól and hete derede swíðe þearle slander and hate have injured us very sorely. Swt. A. S. Rdr. 106, 70. Wæs his hete grim fierce was its hate. Exon. 109 a; Th. 416, 1; Rä. 34, 5: Beo. Th. 5101; B. 2554: 286; 6. 142. Hé forseah and on hete hæfde odio habebat et despiciebat, Bd. 3, 21; S. 551; 25. Se wæs on hete heofoncyninges he was hateful to the king of heaven, Cd. 30; Th. 40, 31; Gen. 648. Ða Iudéiscan bóceras mid hete ðæt tǽldon the Jewish scribes blamed that with malice. Homl. Th. i. 338, 20. Ðú scealt hine álýsan of láþra hete thou shalt release him from the hate of foes, Andr. Kmbl. 1888; An. 946. Ðone mǽstan hete hé sent on eów he shall pour upon you his fiercest hate, Deut. 28, 59. Hete malitiam, Ps. Stequi vagabundus, hostium vitabam insidias, Bd. 2, 12; S. 513, 28. Ða tó Sione hete hæfdon qui oderunt Sion, Ps. Th. 128, 3. Hete hæfde hé æt his hearran gewunnen he had gained hate from his lord, Cd. 16; Th. 19, 34; Gen. 301: 37; Th. 47, 29; Gen. 768: 103; Th. 137, 13; Gen. 2273. Mid fulryhte hete ic hie hatode perfecto odio oderam illos, Past. 46, 5; Swt. 353, 6. Mid inlíce hete domestico odio, Bd. 5, 23; S. 646, 38. Hetas malitias, Ps. SteLaym. hete: Orm. hĕte: Prompt. Parv. hate: Goth. hatis: O. Sax. heti: Icel. hatr: O. H. Ger. haz odium: Ger. hass.] DER. bil-, cumbol-, ecg-, leód-, mód-, morþor-, níþ-, scyld-, teón-, wǽpen-, wíg-hete. -hete,hete
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Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Ger.
German
Goth.
Gothic
Icel.
Icelandic
O. H. Ger.
Old High German
O. Sax.
Old Saxon

Works & Authors

An.
Andreas (OE poem)
Andr.
Andreas (OE poem)
Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Beo.
Beowulf
Cd.
Codex Diplomaticus Saxonici (Kemble)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Mt.
Gospel of St. Matthew (OE translation)
Orm.
Ormulum (ME text by Orm)
Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
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