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Un-wrenc

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1 un-wrenc

m. I. an evil trick, a malicious wile, a wicked artifice :-- Ðisne unwrenc (the device practised by Potiphar's wife) heó geþóhte, Gen. 39, 16. Hé (Antichrist) bið eal unwrenca full, Wulfst. 97, 16. Mid ðám unwrencan bið Antecrist eal áfylled, 54, 15. II. an evil practice, a vice :-- For ðæm unwrence ðære ungeðylde per impatientiae vitium, Past. 33; Swt. 215, 19. [He teð him to unwrenches (evil practices) to stele oðer refloc..., O. E. Homl. ii. 79, 28. Þet is his unwrench (artifice) ... he eggeð þe to a þing, þet þuncheð god, A. R. 268, 16. Ne spedestu noht mid þine unwrenche (your vile tricks), O. and N. 169.] un-wrenc
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Runic Inscription

Runic Inscription

ᚢᚾ-ᚹᚱᛖᚾᚳ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Works & Authors

Gen.
Genesis (OE poem)
Past.
Alfred's Pastoral Care (Gregory's Cura Pastoralis)
R.
Riddles (Exeter Book)
Swt.
Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Reader
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