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heán-líce

  • adjective
  • adverb
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heán-líce, adj.
Ignominiously, ingloriously, disgracefully, miserably,humbly
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  • Fauius heánlíce hámweard óþfleáh

    Fabius ignominiously fled homewards,

      Ors. 3, 10; Swt. 140, 13.
  • Ne lǽt swá heánlíce ðín haudgeweorc forwurþan

    let not thine handiwork so miserably perish,

      Hy. 7, 111; Hy. Grn. ii. 289, 111: Exon. 8 a; Th. 3, 4; Cri. 31: 13 a; Th. 23, 21; Cri. 372.
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  • heán-líce, adj.; adv.