Ælmes-georn

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ælmes-georn

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ælmes-georn
adj. Diligent in giving alms, benevolent; beneficus, liberalis :-- Sum biþ ár-fæst and ælmesgeorn one is honest and diligent in giving alms, Exon. 79a; Th. 297, 13; Crä. 67. Sum man Tobias geháten, swíðe ælmesgeorn a man, whose name was Tobias, very diligent in giving alms, Ælfc. T. 21, 24. ælmes-georn
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