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á-hwǽnan

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  • Wá þám þe wudewan and steópcild oftost áhwǽneð (

    ut essent viduae praeda eorum, et pupillos diriperent,

    Isaiah
      10, 2), Wlfst. 48, 2.

  • Þæt hí wydewan and steópcild tó oft ne áhwǽnan, ac georne hý gladian,

      309, 3: Ll. Th. i. 326, 25.

  • For ðisum wearð Theodosius þearle áhwǽned, and hé his líc for ðǽre sárignysesse mid wácon reáfe scrýdde . . . God hine ná lengc áhwǽnedne habban nolde,

      Hml. S. 23, 393, 402.

  • Utan fréfrian áhwǽnede and hyrtan ormóde,

      Wlfst. 119, 8.
Etymology
[Þe lavedies to me meneþ And wel sore me ahweneþ, O. and N. 1564.]
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v.  hwǽnan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “á-hwǽnan.” 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/38386.

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