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hosp

  • noun [ masculine ]
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hosp, es; m.
Reproach, opprobrium, contempt, contumely, insult, blasphemy
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  • Hosp

    opprobrium,

      Ps. Spl. 14, 4: 21, 5.

  • Ða ðe forþgewéteþ of welerum mínum ná ic dó hosp

    quæ procedunt de labiis meis, non faciam irrita,

      88, 34.

  • Hé geseah mínne hosp áfyrran

    respexit auferre opprobrium meum,

      Lk. Skt. 1, 25.

  • Nú tó dæg ic ádyde ðæra Egiptiscra hosp fram eówrum cynne

    this day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you,

      Jos. 5, 9.

  • Hǽðenra hosp,

      Judth. 11; Thw. 24, 30; Jud. 215: Exon. 10 b; Th. 11, 16; Cri. 171: 29 a; Th. 88, 22; Cri. 1444.

  • Hí mid hospe his láre forsáwon

    they with contumely despised his teaching,

      Homl. Th. ii. 110, 5.

  • Cwæþ mid hospe

    said contemptuously,

      Homl. Swt. 3, 216.

  • Ðá hrýmde Julianus mid hospe and earmlíce gewát

    then cried out Julian blaspheming and miserably died,

    275.

  • Swá hwilcne swá hí tó hospe habban woldon hí cwǽdon be ðam ðæt hé wǽre Samaritanisc

    whomsoever they wished to hold up to contempt, they said of him that he was a Samaritan,

      Homl. Th. ii. 228, 32.

  • Ðonne wurdon hí tó hospe gedóne

    then were they made a reproach,

      Ælfc. T. 12; Grn. 6, 22.

  • Unrihtwíse habbaþ on hospe ða ðe him sindon rihtes wísran

    the unrighteous hold in contempt those that are better skilled in right than themselves,

      Bt. Met. Fox 4, 87; Met. 4, 44.

  • Hospe gereccan

    to reproach opprobriously,

      Exon. 70 a; Th. 260, 21; Jul. 300: 90 a; Th. 337, 17; Gn. Ex. 66.

  • Menigfealde earfoþnyssa and hospas wolde gehwá eáðelíce forberan wið ðan ðæt hé móste sumum rícan men tó bearne geteald beón

    anybody would put up with all kinds of hardships and affronts on condition that he might be accounted the son of some great man,

      Homl. Th. i. 56, 11.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hosp.” 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/19576.

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