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hlígan

  • verb [ uncertain ]
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hlígan, or hligan?
To allow one a reputation for anything, to give one glory
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  • Ne forlét ðú úsic éce drihten for ðám miltsum ðe dec men hlígaþ

    forsake us not, eternal Lord, because of those mercies for which men account thee glorious,

      Cd. 190; Th. 235, 25; Dan. 311.
  • Willaþ mid ðý gedón ðæt hie mon hlíge wísdómes

    they desire thereby to make men allow them a reputation for wisdom;

    doctrinæ sibi opinionem faciunt,
      Past. 48, 2; Swt. 367, 19.
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v. hlísa.
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v.  hlísa.
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