Earfoþ-hylde

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - earfoþ-hylde

According to the Old English Dictionary:

earfoþ-hylde
adj. Ill-inclined, ill-disposed, ill-natured; malĕvŏlus, malignus :-- Se ðe earfoþhylde biþ, and gyrnþ ðæra þinga ðe he begitan ne mihte, búton twýn him geneálǽhþ se hreófla Giezi he who is ill-inclined, and yearns for the things which he could not obtain, without doubt to him approximates the leper Gehazi, Homl. Th. i. 400, 1. earfoþ-hylde
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