Wea-láf

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wea-láf

f. A remnant spared by calamity, those who remain after evil times, the survivors of calamity :-- Land hý áwéstaþ and burga for-bærnaþ and ǽhta forspillaþ and eard hý ámiriaþ. And ðonne land wurðeþ for sinnum forworden and ðæs folces duguð swíðost fordwíneþ, ðonne , féhð seó weáláf sorhful and sárigmód synna bemǽnan erit terra uestra deserta et ciuitates uestre destructe. Et, cum deserta fuerit terra propter peccata populi, et ipsi, qui remanserint tabescentes pronuntiabunt peccata sua, Wulfst. 133, 13: Met. I. 22. Ðæt hé ða weáláfe árum heólde, Beo. Th. 2200; B. 1098: 2172; 1084. wea-laf