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heófian

  • verb [ weak ]
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heófian, p. ode
To lament, mourn, wail, bewail
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  • Ic heófige

    lugeo,

    • Ælfc. Gr. 26; Som. 28, 63.
  • heófiaþ and wépaþ

    plorabitis et flebitis vos,

    • Jn. Skt. 16, 20.
  • Hieremias heófode miclum ðæs folces synna swá swá his bóc ús segþ

    Jeremiah lamented greatly the people's sins, as his book tells us,

    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. 70, 440.
  • Ðá weópon hig ealle and heófodon

    flebant autem omnes et plangebant illam,

    • Lk. Skt. 8, 52.
  • heófodon folces synna

    they bewailed people's sins,

    • Homl. Th. i. 540, 30.
  • Wá eów ðe nú hlihgaþ gé sceolon heófian and wépan

    woe to you that laugh now, ye shall mourn and weep,

    • 180, 15.
  • Ðá ongann Ypolitus sárlíce heófian

    then Hippolytus began sorely to lament,

    • 428, 12
    • :
    • 408, 9
    • :
    • L. E. I. prm; Th. ii. 398, 36.
  • Heófigende

    lugens,

    • Ps. Spl. 34, 17.
  • Heófiende

    flebilis,

    • Bt. 2; Fox 4, 8.
  • Of heófigendre menigu

    from a mourning multitude,

    • Homl. Th. i. 86, 33.
  • Mid heófigendum stemnum

    with lamenting voices,

    • ii. 420, 16.
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v. heófan.
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v.  heáfian heófan be-heófian.
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