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Un-tweógendlíce

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1 un-tweógendlíce

adv. I. without feeling doubt, certainly, unhesitatingly :-- Ic hit untweógendlíce gelýfde in tó gesettanne eam indubitanter inserendam credidi, Bd. 4, 22; S. 592, 30. Eallum mannum þurhwuniggendum in tintregum untweógendlíce, Blickl. Homl. 171, 16. Hié untweógendlíce wéndon ðæt heora hláford wǽre on heora feónda gewealde, Ors. 3, 9; Swt. 134, 27. Ǽgðer ðara folca wénde untweógendlíce ðæt hié sceoldon on ða eorþan besincan, 4, 2; Swt. 160, 29; 4, 5; Swt. 166, 13. Ðætte hié ðý fæsðlícor and ðý untweógendlícor gelífden ðara écena ðinga ut ad aeternorum fidem certius roboretur, Past. 50; Swt. 389, 35. Þéh hý gelýfdan be his segene, ðe hit ǽr geseah, untweógendlícor (-átweógendlícor, MS. C.), ðonne ða heora segene eft gelýfdon, ðe æfter heom ácende wǽron, Wulfst. 2, 12. II. so as not to cause doubt, unequivocally, indubitably :-- Hé his ǽrendracan ásende tó ðære ðeóde, and him untweógendlíce secgan (say in a way that should leave no room for doubt) hét, ðæt hié óðer sceolden, oþþe dæt lond æt him álésan, oþþe hé hié wolde mid gefeohte fordón missis legatis qui hostibus parendi leges dicerent, Ors. 1, 10; Swt. 44, 8.
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᛏᚹᛖᚩᚷᛖᚾᛞᛚᛁᚳᛖ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Bd.
Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica (OE translation)
C.
Corpus Christi College MS
Ors.
Orosius, Historiarum (OE translation by Alfred)
Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
S.
Sievers, E. (editor/scholar)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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