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on-scyte

  • noun [ masculine ]
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on-scyte, es; m.
an attack, assault
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  • Salomon ðæt mǽre hús Godu betǽhte, him and his folce tó gescyldnysse wið ǽlces yfeles onscyte

    as a protection against the assault of every evil,

      Homl. Th. ii. 578, 23.
an attack in words, a calumny, backbiting
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  • Mǽst ǽlc óðrum derede wordes and dǽde; and húru unrihtlíce mǽst ǽlc óðerne æftan heáweþ mid scandlícan onscytan [and mid wróhtlácan, MS. E.],

      Wulfst. 160, 5.
  • For ídelan onscytan hý scamaþ, ðæt hý bétan heora misdǽda,

      165, 7.
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  • on-scyte, n.