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earfoþ-lic

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Take Deut. 1, 17 under next word, and add:
difficult
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  • Ðæt is wundorlic ꝥ ðú segst, and swíþe earfoþlic dysegum monnum tó ongitanne

    mira et concessu difficilis illatio,

      Bt. 38, 2; F. 198, 17.
  • Earfoðlic (or under
?) is tó átellanne seó gedrecednes . . . and ꝥ geswinc and manna fyll, Chr. 1056; P. 186, 31.
grievous
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  • Earbetlicust (earbed-)

    molestissimum,

      Txts. 79, 1320.
  • Earfoðlicost,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 56, 13.
Etymology
[Þe erueðliche (arueð-, 127, 11) herbiwist the hard life (of John the Baptist), O. E. Hml. ii. 125, 11. Icel. erfið*-*ligr.]
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