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an-medla

  • noun [ masculine ]
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an-medla, on-medla, on-mædla, an; m.
Pride, pomp, arrogance, presumption; superbia, fastidium, arrogantia, præsumptio
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  • For ðam anmedlan ðe hie ǽr drugon

    for the arrogance which they before had practised,

    • Cd. 214; Th. 269, 16
    • ;
    • Sat. 74
    • .
  • Ðú for anmedlan in ǽht bǽre [MS. bére] húsl-fatu hálegu on hand werum

    thou, in thy presumption, barest for a possession the holy sacrificial vessels into the hands of men,

    • Cd. 212; Th. 262, 22
    • ;
    • Dan. 748
    • .
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v.  on-médla.
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  • an-medla, n.