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Substitute: Safe, not productive of harm or preventive of harm. [Take here Coll. M. 24, 21 under ge-beorhlic]
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  • God forgifð ús menigfealde wæstmas, þǽra wé sculon brúcan swá ús gebeorhlic sý

    (in such a way as not to harm ourselves),

      Hml. S. 11. 357.

  • Gif hwá hæfð his hláforde sáre ábolgen, ne bið him ná gebeorhlic, þæt hé in him ætforan gá, ǽr hé gebéte; ne húru ne bið ná gebeorhlíc þám þe wið God hæfð forworht hine sylfne . . . , þæt hé tó hrædlíce intó Godes húse racige,

      Wlfst. 155, 16-21.

  • Sý on þǽre bóte swilc forgifnes swilce hit for Gode gebeorglic (-beorh-, v. l.) sý (as that there be no danger of incurring God's anger. Cf. Ll. Th. ii. 312, 28 under gebeorgan ; I. 2.

    The Lat. version has

    remissio uenialis apud Deum) and for weorulde áberendlic,
      LI. Th. i. 266, 6.

  • Gefadige man þá steóre swá hit for Gode sý gebeorhlic (

    the lat. versions have

    erga Deum clementius, propter Deum parcibilis),
      376, 17.

  • Man dóm æfter dǽde medemige be mǽðe swá for Gode si gebeorhlic,

      318, 6.

  • Ne tǽce wé ná mid swá gerádum bysenum and gebeorhlicum lárum, þæt hé leahtras fyrðrige, ac þæt hé snotorlíce hý wanige,

      R. Ben. 121, 7.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-beorglic.” 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/47211.

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