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lyffetere

  • noun [ masculine ]
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lyffetere, es; m.
A flatterer
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  • Lyffetere

    adulator,

    • Wrt. Voc. 85, 40
    • .
  • Liffetere,

    • 49, 14.
  • Ðonne ádumbiaþ ða ýdelan lyffeteras

    then shall the vain flatterers be dumb,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 570, 35
    • .
  • Faraþ tó ðám lyffeterum ðe eów ǽr leáslíce ólæhton

    go to the flatterers that before fawned on you falsely,

    • 570, 23
    • :
    • i. 494, 10
    • .
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v.  lystere.
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