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on-munan

  • verb [ weakstrongpreterite-present ]
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on-munan, to esteem, consider (worthy), think (
Wright's OE grammar
§543;
highly of).
with acc. of person and adj. denoting worth
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  • Búton ic openlíce gecýþe ðæt ic God sylfa sý, ne onmun ðú mé nánre áre wyrþne,

      Blickl. Homl. 181, 36.

  • Ǽlc ðara ðe síe under ðæm gioke hláfordscipes hé sceal his hláford ǽghwelcre áre wierþne onmunan

    quicumque sunt sub jugo servi, dominos suos omni honore dignos arbitrentur,

      Past. 29; Swt. 201, 23.
with acc. of person alone
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  • Hé úsic on herge geceás tó ðyssum síðfæte, onmunde úsic mǽrþa

    he thought us fit for great deeds,

      Beo. Th. 5273.

  • Ðá cuǽdon hié ðæt hié hié ðæs ne onmunden ðon má ðe eówre geféran

    then they said, that they did not consider themselves entitled to accept the offer, 'any more than your comrades did,'

      Chr. 755; Erl. 50, 24.

  • Miclum geblissod ðæt hié God wolde onmunan swá micles ofer menn ealle

    Andrew was greatly rejoiced that God deemed his disciples worthy of such high regard beyond all men (in granting them the vision they had seen ),

      Andr. Kmbl. 1789; An. 897.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “on-munan.” 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/24686.

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