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or-wéna

  • adjective
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or-wéna, adj. with gen.
Hopeless, despairing
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  • Ðá wearþ his agen sunu yfele geuntrumed, and orwéna lífes læg æt /orþsíðe,

      Homl. Skt. i. 3, 301: Beo. Th. 2008 ; B. 1002 : 3134; 6. 1565: Exon. Th. 329, 27; Vy. 40.
  • Friþes orwéna,

      261, 25 ; Jul. 320.
  • Ic eom orwéna, ðæt. . . ,Cd. Th. 134,

      10; Gen. 2222.
  • Wǽron orwénan éðelrihtes,

      191, 7; Exod. 211.
  • Sindon gé firenum bifongne, feores orwénan,

      Exon. Th. 139, 27; Gú. 599. v. next word.
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v.  -wén.
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