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Old English Dictionary Entry

Un-gewemmed

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1 un-gewemmed

adj. I. physical, unspotted, immaculate, uncorrupted, uninjured :-- Se líchoma wæs geméted ungebrosnod and ungewemmed corpus incorruptum inventum est, Bd. 4, 19; S. 588, 38. Hé ungewemmed of ðam hátum bæðe eode, Homl. Th. i. 58, 28. Seó hálge stód ungewemde wlite, Exon. Th. 277, 33; Jul. 590. Eall ða hrægel ungewemmed (intemerata) wǽron, Bd. 4, 30; S. 608, 40. II. moral, undefiled, unstained, inviolate, immaculate :-- Ungewæmmed ic beó immaculatus ero, Ps. Spl. 18, 14. Ungewæmmed inviolata, Hymn. Surt. 54, 25: incorruptibilis, Jn. Skt. p. 1, 6. Uniwemmedes inlaesae (virginitatis), Hpt. Gl. 435, 53: inlibatae, 511, 47. Uniwemmedre immunem, 507, 49. On ungewemmedum mægðháde, Homl. Th. i. 58, 8. Hé his wíf him betǽhte ungewemmed, Gen. 20, 14. III. uncertain :-- Ungeuuemmid infractus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 111, 36. [O. H. Ger. un-giwemmit immaculatus, inlibatus.]
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ᚢᚾ-ᚷᛖᚹᛖᛗᛗᛖᛞ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
Exon.
Exeter Book
Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Jn.
Gospel of St. John (OE translation)
Jul.
Juliana (OE poem by Cynewulf)
Ps.
Psalms (OE)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Th.
Thorpe, Benjamin (editor)
Voc.
Vocabulary
Wrt.
Wright, T. & Wülcker, R. P., Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies
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