Ge-swǽs

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-swǽs
Add; -- Geswǽse blandum, Wülck. Gl. 257, 8. I. of persons, kind, charitable, loving :-- wæs swíðe geswǽs eallum swinc-endum, and on mislicum yrmdum mannum geheólp (cf. hé swincendum fylste, Hml. S. 31, 53), Hml. Th. ii. 500, 16. God cymð ungesewenlice tó geswǽsre heortan þe gehýrsum bið his hǽsum (cf. Lufa ðínne Drihten . . . Lufa ðínne néxtan, 314, 6-9) mid weorce, 316, 4. II. of things, kind, pleasant, alluring, agreeable, persuasive :-- Wolde se heofenlica lǽce mid geswǽsum bigspelle þæt geswell heora heortan gelácnian, hml. Th. i. 338, 22. Se biscop ðá ungeðwǽran preóstas on sibbe gebróhte mid geswǽsre láre, ii. 516, 16. Ne hlyste gé heora geswǽsan lyffetunge, 404, 29. Eádmódnysse cýðan mid geswǽsre ðénunge, 242, 33. þá gewylnunga þisse worulde synt swíðe swicole, þeáh þe hí geswǽse beón, Hml. S. 2, 165. Ðæt hé wiðsóce þám geswǽsum lustum, 5, 315: 35, 132 : Hml. A. 15, 59. Hæfde Ióhannes hire (Mary) gýmene mid geswǽsum ðénungum, Hml. Th. ii. 256, 30. Geswǽsum gemetum blandis modis, Scint. 61, 10. Hé mid geswǽsum wordum ólehte þám mǽdene. Hml. S. 7, 83. ge-swæs
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