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geswinc-ful

  • adjective
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geswinc-ful, -full; adj.
Full of labour, laborious, troublesome, wearisome; lăbōriōsus, incommŏdus
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  • Hit biþ swíðe geswincful

    it is very laborious,

      Past. 60; Swt. 453, 10; Hat. MS: Lchdm. iii. 188, 19: 192, 2, 23.
  • Ðis wæs geswincfull

    this was troublesome,

      Chr, 1097; Erl. 234, 24.
  • Sint hí ðé geswincfulran

    they are more troublesome to thee,

      Bt. 14, 1; Fox 42, 22, MS. Cot.
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