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ge-wislíce

  • adverb
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Grammar
ge-wislíce, -wisslíce; adv.
Certainly, exactly, truly, especially, besides; videlicet, scilicet, sane, utique, porro
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  • Gewisslíce

    sane,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 38
      • ;
    • Som. 41, 45
      • .

  • Gyf sóþlíce gewislíce rihtwísnysse sprecaþ

    si vere utique justitiam loquimini,

    • Ps. Spl. C. 57, 1
      • .

  • Gewislíce án þing is neád-behefe

    porro unum est necessarium,

    • Lk. Bos. 10, 42
      • .

  • Ðú miht blissigan gewisslíce

    thou mayest certainly rejoice,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 132, 1
      • .

  • Se wítegode be Criste swíðe gewislíce swilce he godspellere wǽre

    he prophesied about Christ with great exactness, as if he had been an evangelist,

    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. 69, 414
      • .

  • Gewislíce ic hæbbe

    certe habeo,

    • Coll. Monast. Th. 30, 7
      • .

  • Ic nát náht gewistlíce hwæðer ðæs feós swá micel is

    I do not know for certain whether there is so much money,

    • Th. Chart. 490, 15
      • .

  • Seó lenctenlíce emniht is gewislíce on duodecima kl. April

    the spring equinox is certainly on the twelfth day before the kalends of April,

    • Bd. de nat. rerum
      • ;
    • Wrt. popl. science 11, 1
      • ;
    • Lchdm. iii. 256, 8
      • .

  • Ic cweðe nú gewislícor

    I say now more exactly,

    • 8, 23
      • ;
    • Lchdm. iii. 250, 4
      • :
    • Th. Ap. 15, 24
      • .

  • Ðæs ðe hie gewislícost gewitan meahton

    to the best of their knowledge.

    • Beo. Th. 2704
      • ;
    • B. 1350
      • .
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v.  ge-wisslíce wisslíce.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-wislíce.” 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/16847.

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