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torn-wyrdan

  • verb [ weak ]
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torn-wyrdan, p. de
To address abusive words to, to vituperate
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  • Hiera wíf him ongeán iernende wǽron, and hié swíþe tornwyrdon, and ácsedon, gif hié feohtan ne dorsten, hwider hié fleón woldon; ðæt hié óðer gener næfden búton hié on heora wíf hrif gewiton (

    the Latin, however, is:

    Uxores eorum obviam occurrunt, orant, in praelium revertantur: cunctantibus obscoena corporis ostendunt, quaerentes, num in uteros uxorum vellent refugere),
      Ors. 1, 12; Swt. 54, 2.
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v. torn-word.
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v.  torn-word.
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