For-wandian

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - for-wandian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

for-wandian
Add: I. to reverence :-- Ꝥ mǽden mid forwandigendre sprǽce cwæð the maid speaking respectfully said, Ap. Th. 15, 17. II. to hesitate from fear to do something (with a negative clause) :-- Sume seóce menn forwandigað ꝥ hý nellað geþafian ꝥ hí man smyrige on heora untrumnysse, Ll. Th. ii. 354, 14. Ne forwandede (fore-, An. Ox. 466, 3) non vereretur (violenter irrumpere), Hpt. Gl. 514, 22. for-wandian
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