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lyffetung

  • noun [ feminine ]
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lyffetung, e; f.
Flattery, adulation, paying court to
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  • Lyffetung

    adulatio,

    • Wrt. Voc. 85, 41
    • .
  • Liffetung.

    • 49, 15.
  • Herige hine ná on ðisum lífe, ac æfter his geendunge, ðonne ne deraþ nán lyffetung ðám herigendum, and nán upáhefednys ne costnaþ ðone, geheredan,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 560, 19
    • .
  • Ne hlyste gé heora geswǽsan lyffetunge,

    • 404, 29
    • .
  • Heora nán ne gedyrstlǽce ðæt heó Godes landáre woroldrícum sellen for lyffetunge

    let none of them dare to give God's lands to the powerful of the earth as a means of paying court to them,

    • Lchdm. iii. 442, 32
    • .
  • Ðæt mǽden ne mihte beón bepǽht þurh ǽnige lyffetunge fram hire leófan drihtne,

    • Homl. Skt. 7, 86
    • .
  • Hwǽr beóþ ða líðan lyffetunga ðe hine forlǽddon ǽror

    where are the fair flatteries that formerly seduced him?

    • Basil admn. 8
    • ;
    • Norm. 50, 27.
  • Ða sméðan lyffetunga,

    • Homl. Th. ii. 572, 1
    • .
  • Lyffetungum befangen,

    • i. 492, 32.
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  • lyffetung, n.