Wiþer-breca

De acordo com o Dicionário de Inglês Antigo:

wiþer-breca

Add: (l) an adversary, opponent. :-- Þeáh . . . ealle þá streámas hunige flówen, and him þonne ne sié ofer eorðan nǽnig wiðerbreca, Verc. Först. 114, 9. Þú slóge ealle wiþerbrecan mé percussisti omnes adversantes mihi, Ps. Vos. 3, 8. (2) one who resists, an obstinate person :-- Hé hæfde ǽnne ofermódine cniht and micelne wiðer-brecan superbum valde atque contumacem puerum habuit, Gr. D. 36, 6. See next word. wiþer-breca