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  • adverb
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late, adv.
Wright's OE grammar
§553;
Slowly, late, at length, at last
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  • Alexander late unweorðlícne sige gerǽhte

    [anceps] pugna tandem tristem pene victoriam Macedonibus dedit,

    • Ors. 3, 9
      • ;
    • Swt. 134, 8
      • .

  • Hú ne cymþ se deáþ ðeáh ðe hé late cume and áðéþ eów of ðisse worulde

    sera vobis rapiet hoc etiam dies,

    • Bt. 19
      • ;
    • Fox, 70, 16
      • .

  • Gif wit ðæt ealle sculon ásmeágan ðonne cume wit late tó ende ðisse béc oððe nǽfre,

    • 42
      • ;
    • Fox, 256, 22
      • .

  • Hú late hí on ðysne middangeard ácennede wurdon and hú raþe hí him eft of gewítan sceolan,

    • Blickl. Homl. 59, 23
      • .

  • Late on geáre

    late in the year,

    • Chr. 867
      • ;
    • Erl. 72, 11
      • .

  • Late mylt gǽten flǽsc

    goat's flesh digests slowly,

    • L. M. 2, 16
      • ;
    • Lchdm. ii. 196
      • ;
    • 16
      • .

  • Gif heó gǽþ late .. gif heó hraþe gǽþ,

    • Lchdm. iii. 144, 7
      • :
    • Exon. 49 b
      • ;
    • Th. 172, 2
      • ;
    • Gú. 1137
      • .

  • Ic ðæt gecneów tó late

    too late I perceived it,

    • 72 a
      • ;
    • Th. 269, 2
      • ;
    • Jul. 444
      • :
    • Elen. Kmbl. 1412
      • ;
    • El. 708
      • .

  • Síð and late

    at last,

    • Judth. 12
      • ;
    • Thw. 25, 24
      • ;
    • Jud. 275
      • .

  • Ǽr oððe lator

    prius aut posterius,

    • Athan. 25
      • .

  • Lator

    tardius,

    • Bd. 4, 9
      • ;
    • S. 577, 10
      • .

  • Ðæt ðæt lator biþ, ðæt hæfþ anginn,

    • Homl. Th. i. 284, 7
      • .

  • Onbútan Martines mæssan and gyt lator,

    • Chr. 1089
      • ;
    • Erl. 226, 20
      • .

  • Ðæt hit hraþost weaxan mæg, and latost wealowigan,

    • Bt. 34, 10
      • ;
    • Fox 148, 22
      • .

  • Sý ágifen be emnihte oððe latest be ealra hálgena mæssan

    let it be paid by the equinox, or at latest by All-Hallows' Mass,

    • Wulfst. 208, 5.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “late.” 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/21199.

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