Hreów-lic

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - hreów-lic

According to the Old English Dictionary:

hreów-lic
Add: I. exciting pity, lamentable:--Him tó hreówlic þúhte ꝥ man swá geongne man cwealde . . . swá hé geáxod hæfde þe man gehwǽr dyde, Ll. Th. i. 240, 25. II. suffering distress, hapless, miserable:--Hreówlice calamitosum (uulgus), An. Ox. 4868. [N. E. D. ruly.] hreow-lic
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