Frófor

According to the Old English Dictionary:

frófor

Add: [A weak form occurs in the late Shrn. 202, 16.] (1) consolation. (a) the action of consoling:--Þé is nú frófres máre þearf þonne unrótnesse medicinae tempus est, non querelae, Bt. 3, 3; S. 9, 17. 'Ic eów sende frófre Gást' . . . ꝥ gelimplic wæs ꝥ hé his leornerum frófre sende, Bl. H. 131, 21. Hí ne mihton mid heora frófre his dreórignysse ádwǽscan, Hml. Th. ii. 134, 19. Ic eów mid wunige forð on frófre I will remain on with you consoling you, Cri. 489: 1361. Ferðþes frófre gemétton . . . hæleð hygegeómre, Gú. 895. (b) the state of being consoled, alleviation of distress:--Gé frófre ne wénað, þæt gé wræcsíða wyrpe gebíden, Gú. 479: B. 185: An. 1707. Ic wiðsóc sáwle mínre frófre negavi consolari animam meam, Ps. Th. 76, 3. (c) comfort, freedom from distress:--Hinc gé hér on stariað and in frófre geseóð frætwum blícan, Cri. 522. (2) a consolation, a particular action that consoles, a person, thing or circumstance that affords consolation or comfort:--Eálá Wísdóm, þú þe eart sió héhste frófer wérigra móda summum lassorum solamen animorum, Bt. 22, 1; F. 76, 9. Sió án frófer erminga æfter ðám ermðum þisses lífes, 34, 8; F. 144, 29. Frófor, Hy. 7, 9: Gú. 1184. Ðú in unrótnisse fróffer (solatium), Rtl. 105, 7. Hé nánre frófre beinnan þám carcerne ne gemunde, Bt. 1; F. 4, 2. Hé sægde mancynne tó frófre ꝥ hé sylfa ús gesécean wolde, Bl. H. 119, 29. Sé Hálga Gást wæs . . . þǽm apostolum tó frófre geháten, 131, 13: Gen. 955: 1108. Þá gódan God geseóð heóm tó frófran and tó gefeán and tó áre, Shrn. 202, 16. His swǽsne sunu . . . feóres frófre, Exod. 404; Cri. 338. Hé frófre gecwæð . . . héht his líchoman háles brúcan, An. 1467. Hé ásende þisne frófer þus cwæðende: 'Eálá . . . þíne gebedu synd gefyllede . . . ꝥ gé ne beón gewemmede,' Hml. S. 4, 91. Wæs him frófra mǽst heofonríces weard, El. 196. (3) aid, succour:--Gode þancigende þe him ne forwyrnde frófres, Ap. Th. 18, 26. Hié him frófre and fultomes wilnodan, ꝥ hié móston ðǽra feónda searo ofercuman, Bl. H. 201, 28. Se engel cwóm on fultum and on frófre, 203, 21: B. 1273. Þæt he wǽre gemedemod him forgyfan hwylcehugu frófre (aliquod solatium) þǽr tó eardianne . . . and sóna hé gemétte ǽnne beran standan beforan þám durum, Gr. D. 206, 5. Gedó nú fræmsume frófre þíne benigne fac, Ps. C. 130. Fyrena frófre, B. 628. Frófras (solacia) him beón gesealde, R. Ben. I. 62, 14: 65, 11.

Related words: ge-, hilde-frófor. frofor