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láþettan

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láþettan, [In the last two passages láþettan translates infestare, which however is for infestari. The original Latin of the two translations is: Canes latrantes uiderit vel eis infestare, and: Camelos uidere et ab eis se uiderit infestare.]
For 'To be odious . . . hate' substitute:
to abhor, execrate, hate, hold in detestation
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  • Þíne goda ic láðette and him teónan dó

    ego diis tuis abominationem feci

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      Angl. xvii. 116, 4.

  • Man tó forð láþet þæt man scolde lufian,

      Wlfst. 165, 3 [: 168, 13: Wrt. Voc. ii. 26, 8 : Shrn. 39, 22, in Dict.
    ]. Ongunnon hí hine onscunigean and láðettan mid máran orwyrðum fracoðlicra worda

    majoribus hunc verborum contumeliis detestari coeperunt

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      Gr. D. 250, 28.
to make hateful, render odious.
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v. lǽþettan
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  • Ðás gyltas ne magon úre sáwla ofsleán, ac hí magon hí áwlǽtan and Gode láðettan,

      Hml. Th. ii. 590. 29.
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v.  lǽþettan.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “láþettan.” 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/54338.

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