Hreówlíce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Hreówlíce

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: Related words: wæl-hreówlíce. hreow-lice,hreowlice

Definitions

1 hreówlíce

Add: in a way to excite pity:--Ic wille geswigian . . . hú hreówlíce hé wearð ádrǽfed of his ágenre þeóde praetermitto Pandionis flebilem fugam, Ors. 1, 8; S. 42, 18. Swíþe hreówlíce swá gebend hé wæs wuniende lacrymabile spectaculum praebuit, 5, 2; S. 220, 1: Hml. S. 23, 25: 575: 639. Þá wearð hé hreówlíce deád he died miserably, Hml. Th. i. 478, 14.

Runic Inscription

ᚻᚱᛖᚩᚹᛚᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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