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hiwung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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hiwung, hiwing, e; f.
Forming, shaping, form, figure, pretence, feigning, hypocrisy, dissimulation
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  • Hé ne biþ ðonne geleáfa ac biþ hiwung

    it is not then belief but hypocrisy,

    • Homl. Th. i. 250, 21.

  • Hywung,

    • ii. 220, 32.

  • Gé sind wiðinnan áfyllede mid hiwunge and unrihtwísnysse

    within ye are filled with hypocrisy and unrighteousness,

    • 404, 21.

  • Ða leásan lícceteras ðe mid hiwunge God sécaþ

    the false hypocrites that seek God with outward show,

    • i. 120, 2.

  • Hé com mid hiwunge

    he came with dissimulation,

    • Chr. 1049;
    • Erl. 172, 32.

  • Mid ðære hiwunga ðe hió lícet ðæt hió síe gód

    mendacium specie bonorum,

    • Bt. 20;
    • Fox 72, 1.

  • Hí on fruman tó Godes hiwunga gesceapene wǽron

    in the beginning they were created in the image of God,

    • Blickl. Homl. 61, 7.

  • Þurh hiwwinge

    per figuras,

    • Num. 12, 8.

  • Ðæt hluttre mód ðe Gode gelícaþ forsihþ ða hiwunga and healt sóðfæstnysse

    the pure mind that pleases God despises pretences and holds the truth,

    • Basil admn. 5;
    • Norm. 46, 8.

  • Þurh deófles hiwunga

    per diaboli figmenta,

    • L. Ecg. C. iii. 14;
    • Th. ii. 202, 5.
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v. hiwian.
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v.  hiwing.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hiwung.” 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/19148.

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