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late

  • 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
    • .
  • 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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