Ge-ortrúwian

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-ortrúwian

Add: I. to despair of. (1) with gen.:--Geseah hé ꝥ án leó genóm ꝥ cild . . . hé ðá wæs geortrúwod þæs cildes, Hml. S. 30, 178. (2) with prep.:--Be Godes mildheortnesse geortrúwian de Dei misericordia desperare, R. Ben. I. 22, 11. I a. reflex. to cause (oneself) to despair, to despair:--Ne geortrúwige nán man hine sylfne for his synna micelnysse, Hml. Th. ii. 124, 30. ¶ ge-ortrúwod desperate:--Hwilc ánwilnys and geortrúwad wylla, Hml. S. 4, 310. II. to make doubtful about:--Nolde God ꝥ hí wǽron geortrúweda be þám wéne þǽra ælmæssena ut non de eleemosynarum aestimatione fallerentur, Gr. D. 331, 28. II a. to doubt. II. 1 a, II. 3. ge-ortruwian

Related words: ge-ortríwan;