Freoðo-wǽr

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - freoðo-wǽr

According to the Old English Dictionary:

, freoðu-wǽr, frioðo-wǽr, frioðu-wǽr, friðo-wǽr, e;

freoðo-wǽr
f. A covenant of peace, an agreement, compact; pācis fœdus, pactum :-- Wæs seó eorla gedriht ánes módes, fæstum fæðmum freoðowǽre heóld the host of men was of one mind, held the covenant of peace in their firm breasts, Cd. 158; Th. 197, 13; Exod. 306. Hí onféngon fulwihte and freoðuwǽre they received baptism and the covenant of peace, Andr. Kmbl. 3259: An. 1632. /. fríoðo-wár, -waru. freoðo-wær
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