Ofer-prút, -prúd

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - ofer-prút, -prúd

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ofer-prút, -prúd
adj. Excessively proud, puffed up :-- Ne bisceop . . . bisceophádes intingan regules beboda oferprút þrístlíce betwyxsende nec episcopus episcopatus occasione regule beboda tumidus temere intermittat, Angl. xiii. 373, 104. Ys uppáhafennyss þearfena, þá ne welan upp áhebbað, and willa on him sylf oferprút ys est elatio pauperum, quos nec diuitie eleuant, et uoluntas in eis sola superba est, Scint. 183, 12. God gewilnað beón unbunden andettende ꝥ hé ná oferprúte wítnian genýde (ne contumaces punire cogatur), 38, 13. [N. E. D. over-proud.] ofer-prut
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