ge-swinc
- noun [ neuter ]
Grammar
Wright's OE grammar
§393;
Labour, exercise, inconvenience, fatigue, trouble, affliction, tribulation, torment, temptation, banishment; lăbor, exercĭtātio, incommŏdum, afflictio, trībŭlātio, tentātio, exsĭlium
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Geswinc
lăbor,
Ælfc- Gr. 9, 21; Som. 10, 27.
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Com ðis geswinc ofer us
vēnit sŭper nos ista trībŭlātio,
- Gen. 42, 21: Ps. Surt. 21, 12.
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On tíd geswinces
in tempŏre trībŭlātiōnis,
- 36, 39: 17, 19.
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Ðú eall þing birest búton geswince
thou bearest all things without labour,
- Bt. Met. Fox 20, 553; Met. 20, 277: Chr. 1016; Erl. 155, 3.
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On geswince
in exercĭtātiōne,
- Ps. Spl. 54, 2.
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Sum heard geswinc habban sceoldon
they must have some hard torment,
- Cd. 17; Th. 20, 30; Gen. 317: Chr. 1085; Erl. 218, 10.
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Eallra geswinca
of all labours,
- Bt. Met. Fox 21, 20; Met. 21, 10: 21, 28; Met. 21, 14.
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On mínum geswincum
in tentātiōnĭbus meis,
- Lk. Bos. 22, 28: Homl. Th. ii. 82, 23.
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Gé eodon on hyra geswinc
in lălōres eōrum introistis,
- Jn. Bos. 4, 38.
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Geswinc
exsĭlium,
- Cot. 73.
Entry information
Citation
Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-swinc.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/16284.
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