Weorold-bót

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - weorold-bót

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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weorold-bót
f. ' Bót' prescribed by the secular power in contrast with 'godcund bót,' that prescribed by the church :-- Ða woruldbóte hig gesetton . . . swá hwár swá man nolde godcunde bóte gebúgan mid rihte tó bisceopa dihte, L. E. G. proem.; Th. i. 166, 16. weorold-bot
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