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hám-weard

  • adverb
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hám-weard, adv.
Homeward, in the direction of home; domum versus, retro
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  • Ðá heó hámwerd wæs

    when it was on its way home,

      H. R. 103, 24.
  • Ðá hý hámweard wǽron when they were on the way home, Ors. 4, 6; Bos. 85, 38, Égeas wearþ gelǽht fram atelícum deófle hámwerd be wege ǽrðan hé tó húse cóme

    Ægeas was seized by a horrible devil on the way home, before he came to his house,

      Homl. Th. i. 598, 23.
  • Æþelwulf ðá him hámweard fór

    Ethelwulf then journeyed homeward,

      Chr. 855; Erl. 68, 29: 885; Erl. 82, 30.
  • Se esne hig hámweard lǽdde tó his hláforde

    the servant brought her home to his lord,

      Gen. 24, 61.
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