Ge-wealdes

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-wealdes
I. of deliberate, voluntary action, intentionally, of one's own accord :-- Hý fúl ne friðian willes ne gewealdes, Ll. Th. i. 162, 26. Nǽfre willes ne gewealdes ówiht dón, 178, 6. Ná gelíc þám þe willes and gewealdes misdéð, 328, 22, Gif hwá hwæt ungewealdes gedéð, ne bið ꝥ eallunga ná gelíc þe hit gewealdes gedéð, 412, 15. Gif hwá of giernesse and gewealdes ofsleá his þone néhstan þurh searwa si quis per industriam occiderit proximum suum et per insidias, 46, 26. II. where what happens is the result of one's action :-- Gif him ðonne gewealdes gebyrige oððe ungewealdes (whether he is responsible or not for what happens), Past. 199, 22.

Related words: un-gewealdes. ge-wealdes

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