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gréting

  • noun [ feminine ]
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gréting, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§10; §615;
A greeting, salutation, present in acknowledgment of a favour done; salutatio
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  • Hwæt seó gréting wǽre

    qualis esset ista salutatio,

      Lk. Bos. 1, 29.
  • Ðínre grétinge stefn

    vox salutations tuæ,

      1, 44.
  • Lufiaþ grétinga on strǽtum

    diligitis salutationes in foro,

      11, 43.
  • Pápa sende Eádwine grétinge

    the pope sent to Edwin greeting,

      Bd. 2, 10; S. 512, 20.
  • Sendaþ mín heáfod án to grétinge and bringaþ mínre méder ðæt heó ðæt cysse

    send my head only in greeting and bring it to my mother that she may kiss it,

      Shrn. 139, 28.
  • Ðá brohte seó sce damiane medmicle grétinge gewritu secgaþ ðæt ðæt wǽre þreó ægero

    then she brought St. Damian a slight acknowledgment; books say that it was three eggs,

      135, 17, 23.
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  • gréting, n.