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un-wærlíce

  • adverb
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Grammar
un-wærlíce, adv.
Unwarily, incautiously, without caution, heedlessly
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  • Ic lǽre ðæt hira nán ðara ne wilnie ðe hine unwærlíce begá; and se ðe hí unwærlíce gewilnige, ondrǽde hé ðæt hé hí ǽfre underfénge

    ut haec, qui vacat, incaute non expetat; et qui incaute expetiit, adeptum se esse pertimescat,

    • Past. proem.
      • ;
    • Swt. 23, 14.

  • Geðence se láriów ðæt hé unwærlíce ( incaute ) forð ne rǽse on ða sprǽce,

    • 15
      • ;
    • Swt. 95, 9.

  • Gif sió wund bið unwærlíce gewriðen

    cum fractura incaute colligatur,

    • 17
      • ;
    • Swt. 123, 18.

  • Se ðe ðone wuda unwærlíce ( incaute ) hiéwð,

    • 21
      • ;
    • Swt. 167, 15.

  • Ðá eode hé on íse unwærlíce

    dum incautius in glacie incederet,

    • Bd. 3, 2
      • ;
    • S. 525, 1.

  • Ða ðe unwærlíce and gémeleáslíce Gode hýraþ,

    • Blickl. Homl. 63, 22: 57, 9: Exon. Th. 363, 34
      • ;
    • Wal. 63: L. Ælfc. P. 7
      • ;
    • Th. ii. 366, 13.

  • Him com ongén Hanno unwærlíce, and ðǽr ofslagen wearð,

    • Ors. 4, 10
      • ;
    • Swt. 200, 4: Chr. 1068
      • ;
    • Erl. 206, 9.

  • Þænne gyltas unwerlíce [wé] forgyfaþ

    dum culpas incaute remittimus,

    • Scint. 149, 8.
Etymology
[Ne ne wite hie a wiche halue ne a wiche wise he hem wile bisette, þanne he hem unwarliche (unexpectedly) his dintes giueð.
  • O. E. Homl. ii. 191, 32.
Icel. ú-varliga unwarily.
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v.  wærlíce.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “un-wærlíce.” 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/33936.

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