Twi-sprǽc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - twi-sprǽc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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twi-sprǽc
f. Double speech, unfair speech, detraction :-- Fácon and éswico and æfisto and allo tuispréco dolum et simulationes et invidias et omnes detractiones, Rtl. 25, 25. [Sowen we defles sed ... ivele word, hoker and scorn, ... and cheast, and twispeche, and curs, and leasinges, ... and alle swikele speches, Rel. Ant. i. 129, 24.] twi-spræc
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