Deór-wyrþe

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - deór-wyrþe

According to the Old English Dictionary:

deór-wyrþe
Add: I. of persons, of great worth, excellent, noble :-- Dionisius se deórwurða martyr, Hml. S. 29, 6. Dauid se deórwurða sealmwirhta, Ælfc. T. Grn. 7, 5. II. of things, of great value, precious, costly :-- Deórwurde wǽfels regillum vel peplum vel palla, Wrt. Voc. i. 40, 32. Sealfbox deórwyrþes (diórwytðes, L., ðiórwyrdes, R. pretiosi) nardes, Mk. 14, 3. Án pund deórwyrþre smerenesse, Bl. H. 69, 1. Diórweorþum stáne, Kent. Gl. 250. He his ꝥ deórwyrðe blód ágeát, Bl. H. 97, 12. Glengas deórwyrþra hrægla, 99, 19. þincg dýrwyrþe res pretiosas, Coll. M. 26, 33. ꝥ is ꝥ eallra deórweorþeste feoh pretiosissimum divitiarum genus, Bt. 20; F. 72, 26. in Dict. [v. N. E. D. deor-wyrþe

Related words: diór-, dýr-wurþe

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