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simble

  • adverb
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Grammar
simble, symble, simle, siemle, semle, symle ; adv.
Ever, always.
continually, continuously, without intermission.
alone
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  • Symble mid ðé

    semper tecum,

      Ps. Th. 72, 18.

  • Symble fýr oððe gár

    ever fire or piercing cold,

      Cd. Th. 20, 29 ; Gen. 316.

  • Simle

    diuturne,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 23.

  • Hié simle lócigeaþ tó ðære eorþan

    ad terram semper inclinantur,

      Past. 21, 3 ; Swt. 155, 20.

  • Hié wǽron simle healfe æt hám, healfe úte,

      Chr. 894 ; Erl. 90, 17.

  • In ðé sáule sóðfæstra simle gerestaþ,

      Exon. Th. 4, 16 ; Cri. 53 : Met. 20, 238.

  • Semle,

      20, 198.

  • Ic siemle mid ðé beó,

      Bt. 7, 3 ; Fox 22, 23.

  • Hé symle Drihtne folgode,

      Homl. Th. i. 58, 17.

  • Symle wesan on lustum,

      Cd. Th. 30, 26 ; Gen. 472.

  • Ne swylteþ hé symle ac him eft cymeþ bót he does not die for ever, does not remain dead, but remedy comes again to him, Exon. Th. 419, 13 ; Rä. 38, 5. ¶ in clauses with a comparative :-- Symle biþ ðý heardra ðe hit sǽstreámas swíðor beátaþ

    it keeps getting harder the more the waves beat it,

      Cd. Th. 80, 7 ; Gen. 1325 : Beo. Th. 5752 ; B. 2880 : Salm. Kmbl. 485 ; Sal. 243.
with words of similar meaning
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  • His sóðfæstnyss wunaþ symble éce

    justitia ejus manet in seculum seculi,

      Ps. Th. 110, 2.

  • Symble on écnesse

    in aeternum,

      118, 142.

  • Simle singales beclýsed,

      Exon. Th. 20, 25 ; Cri. 323.

  • Singallíce simle,

      Met. 7, 46.

  • Forþ simle,

      Exon. Th. 23, 30 ; Cri. 376.

  • Symle áwo tó ealdre,

      149, 6 ; Gú. 757.

  • Á symle,

      459, 10 ; Hy. 4, 114.
  • ¶ with comparative :-- Ðé biþ á symble of dæge on dæg drohtaþ strengra, Andr. Kmbl. 2768 ; An. 1386.
on every occasion or
opportunity, without missing, in unbroken succession
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  • Faraþ six dagas simble (

    without missing a day

    ) ymb ða burh.
      Jos. 6, 3.

  • Symble biþ gemyndgad morna gehwylce,

      Beo. Th. 4891 ; B. 2450.

  • Symble gefégon burhweardes cyme

    they rejoiced whenever he came,

      Andr. Kmbl. 1318 ; An. 659.

  • Ðú simle mǽnst, gif ðé ǽnies willan wana biþ,

      Bt. 11, 1 ; Fox 30, 21.

  • Ðæt mód siemle biþ gebunden ðǽr ðissa twega yfela áuðer rícsaþ

    whenever either of these two evils prevails, the mind is bound,

    6 ; Fox
      16, 2.

  • Nǽfre ic ða geþeahte sécan wolde, ac ic symle mec áscéd ðara scylda,

      Elen. Kmbl. 936 ; El. 469.

  • Ðæt hé symle oftost God weorþige,

      Exon. Th. 27, 17 ; Cri. 432 : 243, 34 ; Jul. 20.

  • Symle hý Gúðlác fromne fundon, ðonne hý neósan cwóman, 123, 7 ; Gú. 319 : 205, 6 ; Ph. 108. ¶ where a series of times is mentioned :-- Symble (symle, Exon. Th. 367, 19) ymbe seofon niht

    every seven days,

    Soul
      Kmbl. 19 ; Seel. 10 : Andr. Kmbl. 313 ; An. 157.

  • Simle ymb .xii. mónaþ,

      Chart. Th. 461, 9 : 474, 5 : 475, 3.
Etymology
[O. Sax. simbla, simla : O. H. Ger. simple semper.]
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v. simbel.
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v.  symble symle.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “simble.” 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/27762.

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