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fægere

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beautifully to the eye
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  • Fægere gefrætewod,

    • Seel. 139
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  • Fægere gegyrwed,

    • Rä. 21, 2.

  • Cyrice geworht swá fægre swá hit men fægrost geþencean meahton. Synd þǽr þrý porticas swíþe fægere ufan oferworhte,

    • Bl. H. 125, 22
      • .

  • Þæt on foldan fægre stóde wudubeám wlitig,

    • Dan. 498
      • .
of sound
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  • Hí singað fægre,

    • Cri. 390
      • .
of composition,
elegantly
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  • Ic þá ged ne mæg gefégean swá fægre (cf. ic sceal mid ungerádum wordum gesettan,

    • Bt. 2
      • ;
    • F. 4, 7
      • ),
    • Met. 2, 6
      • .
of gentle movement or procedure,
without haste or violence, gently
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  • Fægre

    pedetemptim (=sófte,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 81, 39
      • ),
    • An. Ox. 3046
      • :
    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 40, 47
      • :
    • 66, 49
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  • Se lǽce grápað suíðe fægre ymbútan ðæt ðæt hé sníðan wile,

    • Past. 187, 1
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  • Þǽr mé sófte byð, þǽr ic beó fægere beþeaht fiðerum ðínum,

    • Ps. Th. 60, 3
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  • Hí hine mid ealre smyltnysse on heora fiðerum feredon, þæt hé ne mihte ne on scipe fægeror gefered beón,

    • Guth. 40, 18
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of gentle, courteous, kindly treatment
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  • Onfóh þú þínum esne fægere,

    • Ps. Th. 118, 122.

  • Swá fæder ðenceð fægere his bearnum milde weorðan,

    • 102, 13
      • .
of gentle speech, cf. to speak a person
fair
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  • Ongan Abraham sprecan fægre tó Lothe,

    • Gen. 1900
      • :
    • 2497
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  • Fægre grétan,

    • 2104.

  • Fægre fricgean,

    • B. 1985
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  • Fægre gehátan

    to make fair promises,

    • 2989.

  • Hé swǽslíce sibbe geháteð, fréfreð hí fægre

    (speaks words of kind comfort),

    • Crl. 1341
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  • Hé ðám folce fægere bodade

    with kindly words he warned the people,

    • Hml, Th. ii. 140, 10
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  • Hé hí gefréfrode, ðus fægre tihtende,

    • 328, 3
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  • Mid fæderlicre lufe fægere tihtende,

    • Hml. S. 13, 313.
in a bad sense,
plausibly, speciously:
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  • Hé spreceð fægere beforan and þæt fácen hafað in his heortan,

    • Leás, 5
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so as to be without impurity
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  • Hé mec fægre feormað,

    • Rä. 72, 18
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without defect, thoroughly, nobly, splendidly, with happy result.
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v. fægerlíce
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  • Hú mæg se ungelǽreda lǽwedum folce fægre bodian ?,

    • Hml. Th. ii. 320, 12
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  • Fægere gereorded

    splendidly entertained,

    • B. 1788
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  • Hé fylde þínne willan fægere mid góde

    satiat in bonis desiderium tuum,

    • Ps. Th. 102, 4
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  • Heofonas syndon fægre gefylled þínes wuldres,

    • Ph. 627
      • :
    • Gú. 625
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  • Gefultuma mé, þonne beó ic fægere hál,

    • Ps. Th. 118, 117
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  • Gefultuma mé fægere,

    • 118, 86
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  • Fægre,

    Jud.

    • 301.

  • Þá gefetredan fægre Drihten álýseð

    the Lord makes deliverance fair of the fettered,

    • Ps. Th. 145, 7
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  • Seledreáme fægre onþeón,

    • Rä. 64, 2
      • .

  • Fægere áfréfran,

    • Ps. Th. 125, 1
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  • Git mid þý fullwihte fægre onbryrdon ealne þisne middangeard

    gave splendid incitement to all this earth,

    • Hö. 136
      • .

  • Hé him fægre leán geaf

    he rewarded them splendidly,

    • Cri. 472
      • :
    • 1361
      • .

  • Þú þe Maria fægere ákende

    thou whom Mary in happy hour brought forth,

    • Hy. 3, 26
      • .
with propriety, in a becoming manner
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  • God sceal mon ǽrest hergan, fægre fæder úserne,

    • Gn. Ex. 5
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  • Wese God á gebletsad, and þæt fægere becweðe folca ǽghwylc,

    • Ps. Th. 105, 37
      • .
justly, in equity
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  • Sceal wearh hangian, fægere ongildan þæt hé ǽr fácen dyde,

    • Gn. C. 56
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Etymology
[v.
N. E. D. fair; adv.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “fægere.” 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/44341.

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