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ge-swinc

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
ge-swinc, -swing, es; n. [swinc labour, trouble]
Wright's OE grammar
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Labour, exercise, inconvenience, fatigue, trouble, affliction, tribulation, torment, temptation, banishment; lăbor, exercĭtātio, incommŏdum, afflictio, trībŭlātio, tentātio, exsĭlium
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  • Geswinc

    lăbor,

    • Ælfc Gr. 9, 21
      • ;
    • Som. 10, 27.

  • Com ðis geswinc ofer us

    vēnit sŭper nos ista trībŭlātio,

    • Gen. 42, 21: Ps. Surt. 21, 12.

  • On tíd geswinces

    in tempŏre trībŭlātiōnis,

    • 36, 39: 17, 19.

  • Ðú eall þing birest búton geswince

    thou bearest all things without labour,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 20, 553
      • ;
    • Met. 20, 277: Chr. 1016
      • ;
    • Erl. 155, 3.

  • On geswince

    in exercĭtātiōne,

    • Ps. Spl. 54, 2.

  • Sum heard geswinc habban sceoldon

    they must have some hard torment,

    • Cd. 17
      • ;
    • Th. 20, 30
      • ;
    • Gen. 317: Chr. 1085
      • ;
    • Erl. 218, 10.

  • Eallra geswinca

    of all labours,

    • Bt. Met. Fox 21, 20
      • ;
    • Met. 21, 10: 21, 28
      • ;
    • Met. 21, 14.

  • On mínum geswincum

    in tentātiōnĭbus meis,

    • Lk. Bos. 22, 28: Homl. Th. ii. 82, 23.

  • Gé eodon on hyra geswinc

    in lălōres eōrum introistis,

    • Jn. Bos. 4, 38.

  • Geswinc

    exsĭlium,

    • Cot. 73.
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v.  swinc ge-swenc ge-swincg ge-swing.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-swinc.” 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/16284.

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