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hwílwend-líc

  • adjective
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Grammar
hwílwend-líc, adj.
Temporary, lasting only for a time, not eternal
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  • Hit is hwílwendlíc

    est temporalis,

    • Mt. Kmbl. 13, 21.

  • Þreó þing synd on middanearde án is hwílwendlíc ... óðer þing is éce ... þridde þing is éce,

    • Homl. Swt. 1, 25.

  • Manna freóndscipe biþ swiðe hwílwendlíc

    the friendship of men lasts but a very short time,

    • Blickl. Homl. 195, 26.

  • Se ælmihtiga se ðe is éce leóht ǽrest ðæt hwílwendlíc leóht geworhte,

    • Boutr. Scrd. 19, 5
      • .

  • Hwílwendlíc líf ... éce líf

    the life of time ... the life of eternity,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 240, 15-20.

  • Nalæs ðæt án ðæt hé hí fram yrmþum écre niðerunge ac swylce eác fram ðam mánfullan wæle hwílwendlícre forwyrde generede

    non solum eam ab ærumna perpetuæ damnationis, verum et a clade infanda temporalis interitus eripuit,

    • Bd. 4, 13
      • ;
    • S. 582, 27.

  • Hé swanc for heofonan ríce swíðor ðonne hé hogode hú hé geheólde on worulde ða hwílwendlícan geþincþu,

    • Swt. A. S. Rdr. 98, 93.

  • Ðæt wé ða heofonlícan þinga mid ðam eorþlícum and ða écelíc mid ðam hwílwendlícum geearniaþ,

    • L. Ath. i. prm
      • ;
    • Th. i. 196, 27.
Etymology
[
Orm. hwílwendlíc
:
cf. O. H. Ger. wílwendige fortuna,
Grff. i. 763.]
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v. hwílend-líc.
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v.  hwílend-líc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hwílwend-líc.” 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/20165.

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