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ed-hwyrft

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return to a place
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  • Ús is áléfed edhwyrft tó þǽm écean lífe,

      Bl. H. 137, 14.
  • Gesǽligum edhwyrftum

    felici reditu,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 30.
return, recovery from a condition
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  • Oftigen bið him torhtre gesihðe . . . þæt him bið sár in his móde . . . ne wéneð þæt him þæs edhwyrft cyme (

    he does not expect to recover from his blindness

    ),
      Gn. Ex. 42.
return to a condition
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  • Þá þǽr sóna wearð edhwyrft eorlum siððan inne fealh Grendles módor

    there was a return to the old state of things for the men after Grendel's mother had forced her way in,

      B. 1281.
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