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hrór

  • adjective
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hrór, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§426;
Stirring, active, agile, nimble, vigorous, stout, strong
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  • Hrór hægstealdmon

    a stout fellow,

    • Exon. 113 b
    • ;
    • Th. 436, 18
    • ;
    • Rä. 55, 3.
  • Sǽde ðæt his byrne ábrocen wǽre heresceorpum hrór [heresceorp unhrór, Th.]

    said that his byrnie was broken, strong [though it was] as armour,

    • Fins. Th. 90
    • ;
    • Fin. 45.
  • Ðá Israélas ǽhte gesǽtan hróres folces

    et habitavit in tabernaculis eorum tribus Israel,

    • Ps. Th. 77, 56.
  • Swá seó stræle byþ strangum and mihtigum hrórum on handa

    sicut sagittæ in manu potentis,

    • 126, 5.
  • Dá wæs of ðæm hróran [ Beowulf ] helm and byrne lungre álýsde

    ,
    • Beo. Th. 3262
    • ;
    • B. 1629.
  • Drihten his heáhsetl hrór timbrade

    Dominus paravit sedem suam,

    • Ps. Th. 102, 18: 88, 26.
  • Geseoh hróre meaht hysse ðinum

    da potestatem tuam puero tuo,

    • 85, 15.
  • Hróre stence

    with strong perfume,

    • 132, 2.
  • Ðæt hé folc gesceóp fægere Drihten heraþ holdlíce hróre geþance

    populus qui creabitur laudabit Dominum,

    • 101, 16.
  • Nǽnig móste heora hrórra hrím æpla gedígean

    occidit moros eorum in pruina,

    • 77, 47,
  • Hrórum neátum oððe unhrórum

    mobilibus belluis aut immobilibus animantibus,

    • Bt. 41, 5
    • ;
    • Fox 254, 14.
Etymology
[
O. Sax. hrór
: cf.
O. H. Ger. ga-hrórig viridis, floridus, florens
:
Ger. rührig
: cf. also
Prompt. Parv. rooryn̄ or ruffelyn̄ amonge dy uerse thyngys manumitto; and the epithet roaring as applied in the Elizabethan times to bullies, v. Nares' Gloss. s.v.
]
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v. fela-, un-hrór; and hréran.
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