Weorold-wrenc

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

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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weorold-wrenc
m. A worldly wile, a trick of this world:-- Ða ðe woruldmonnum ðynceaþ dysige, ða geciésð Dryhten, for ðæm ðæt hé ða lytegan, ðe mid ðissum woroldwrencium bióð upáhæfene, gescende quae stulta sunt mundi, elegit Deus, ut confundat sapientes, Past. 30; Swt. 203, 24. weorold-wrenc
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