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ge-sweorcan

  • verb [ strong ]
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Grammar
ge-sweorcan, he -swyrcþ; p. -swearc, pl. -swurcon; pp. -sworcen
To become dark, be darkened, saddened, angry
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  • Ródor eal geswearc

    the heavens all grew dark,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 1709
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    • El. 856: Beo. Th. 3583
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    • B. 1789: Cd. 166
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    • Th. 207, 4
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    • Exod. 461.

  • Seó eorþe wæs gesworcen and aþýstrod under his fótum

    caligo sub pedibus ejus,

    • Ps. Th. 17, 9.

  • Ðá geswearc se Godes man semninga and ongan heardlíce and bitterlíce wépan

    then suddenly the man of God become sad and began to weep sorely and bitterly;

    solutus est in lacrymis vir

    • Dei, Bd. 4, 25
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    • S. 600, 29: Exon. 77 a
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    • Th. 290, 3
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    • Wand. 59.

  • Geswearc ðá sweor

    the father-in-law then grew angry,

    • 67 a
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    • Th. 247, 13
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    • Jul. 78.
Etymology
Cf. asweorcan.
[O. Sax. gi-swerkan to become dark, literally and metaphorically as in English:
O. H. Ger. ge-sworcen; part. p. turbulentus, nubilus.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-sweorcan.” 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/16263.

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