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mægþ-hád

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Wright's OE grammar
§605;
Add: virginity as regards man or woman
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  • Mægdthád is sé þe wunað on clǽnnysse ǽfre fram cildháde ge wǽpmenn ge wífmenn. Hml. A. 20, 162.
  • Ðás hálgan nǽron nǽfre mid wífum besmitene. Hí sindon mægðháde gehealdenre clǽnnysse (

    virgines sunt;

    ),
      19, 125.
  • Heó cwæð ꝥ heó hine ne nánne habban wolde, gyf hire seó úplice árfæstnys geunnan wolde ꝥ heó on , mægðháde Drihtne on clǽnre forhafednysse cwéman mihte,

      Chr. 1067; P. 201, 16.
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v.  mægden-hád.
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  • mægþ-hád,