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Old English Dictionary Entry

þeáw-full

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1 þeáw-full

adj. Moral, virtuous :-- Oft hig (devils) beswícaþ þeáwfulle weras (ða ðeáwfullan, MS. A.), Wulfst. 250, 4. [Heo Godd thonkeden mid þeufulle (witfolle, 2nd MS.), worden, Laym. 1797. Mid þeaufule talen schurteð ou, A. R. 422, 19. Ne beo þu nawt tu trusti ane to þi meidenhad wiðuten oðer god and þawfulle mihtes, H. M. 45, 4.]
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ᚦᛖᚪᚹ-ᚠᚢᛚᛚ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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