Mild-heort

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - mild-heort

According to the Old English Dictionary:

mild-heort
adj. I. kind-hearted, of gentle disposition, meek :-- Leorniaþ æt mé forðon ðe ic eom mildheort and eáþmód (mitis et humilis corde, Mt. 11, 29), Blickl. Homl. 13, 19. Uton beón eáþmóde and miidheorte and ælmesgeorne, 95, 26. Ðá weóp hé eác sylf ... swá hé wæs manna mildheortost, 225, 23. II. merciful, compassionate, gracious, clement :-- Ðú God mildheort (misericors), Ps. Spl. 85, 14: miserator, 102, 8. Beóþ mildheorte swá eówer fæder is mildheort, Lk. Skt. 6, 36: Blickl, Homl. 97, 32. Ðín mildheort mód misericordia tua, Ps. Th. 107, 4. Mid mildheortum weorcum with works of mercy, Blickl. Homl. 37, 19. Cyng ðú mildheortesta rex clementissime (Christ), Hymn. Surt. 86, 29: Ors. 6, 30; Bos. 126, 39 note. Hé wæs eallra monna mildheortast he was most compassionate of all men, 5, 12; Swt. 242, 20. [O. H. Ger. milt-herzi misericors.] mild-heort
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