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gésne

  • adjective
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gésne, adj.
Lacking, wanting, destitute, lifeless; expers, egenus, destitutus, exanimis
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  • Læg se fúla leáp gésne

    the foul corpse lay lifeless,

      Judth. 10; Thw. 23, 8; Jud. 112.
  • He funde ðá on bedde his goldgifan gǽstes gésne, lífes belidenne

    he then found his goldgiver void of spirit, deprived of life,

      12; Thw. 25, 26; Jud. 279.
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v. gǽsne.
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v.  gésine geásne.
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