Weddung

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - weddung

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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weddung
f. Betrothal, espousal :-- Ðá cwæþ Pilatus tó ðam folce, ða ðe sǽdon ðæt hé of forligere wǽre ácenned : ' Ðeós sprǽc nys ná sóþ ðæt gé sprecaþ, for ðon seó weddung wæs beweddod, eal swá eówre ágene ðeóda secgaþ, ' Nicod. 7 ; Thw. 3, 31. [Or men wimman to louerd giue for wedding or for morgengiwe, Gen. and Ex. 1428.]

Related words: be-weddung. weddung

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