Ge-mearr

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ge-mearr

According to the Old English Dictionary:

The Latin of Past. 401, 20 is; Quem igitur caelibem curarum secularium impedimentum praepedit.

ge-mearr
For Gl. Prud. 662 substitute Germ. 397, 496, and add: futility, vanity :-- Ná on gemear þú gesettest suna manna non uane constituisti filios hominum. Ps. Rdr. 88, 48. [Cf. mirran; II, and O. H. Ger. ki-merrit irritum; far-marrit irritum, sine effectu.] ge-mearr
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