Wiþer-cwide
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wiþer-cwide
According to the Old English Dictionary:
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- wiþer-cwide
- m. Resistance, opposition, contest :-- Ðæt twelf hída land butan ǽlcum wiðercwide seó ágefen tó Wigornacestre, Chart. Th. 131, 25: Chart. Erl. 162, 1. Gif hwá openne wiðercwyde ongeán lahriht gewyrce, L. Eth. ad aquas contradictionis, Ps. Th. 105, 25. Ic on unriht lócade and wiðercwyda wearn gehýrde vidi iniquitatem et contradictionem, 54, 8. [Cf. O. H. Ger. widar-queta contradictio.] wiþer-cwide