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or-wéne

  • adjective
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or-wéne, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§111; §580;
with gen.
not having ground for hope, without hope, despairing
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  • Biþ orwéne ðæt hé ne mǽge ða bóte áberan

    desperet posse se emendationem perferre,

      L. Ecg. P. i. 4; Th. ii. 172, 23.
  • Hé wearþ his lífes orwéne. Homl. Th. i. 86, 28.
  • Hé læg his lífes orwéne,

      Homl. Skt. i. 21, 301: Glostr. Frag. 6, 18: Chart. Th. 339, 22.
  • Hié ðæs écan lífes orwéne wǽron,

      Blickl. Homl. 85, 27.
  • Huí wǽron orwéne hwæðer. . . ,

      Ors. 4, 9; Swt. 192, 4.
not giving ground for hope, desperate, despaired of
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  • Wenstú ðæt ic sceole sprecan to ðissum treówleásan men and tó ðissum orwénan drý (

    this desperate sorcerer

    ),
      Blickl. Homl. 183, 32.
  • Æt orwénum lífe

    when life is despaired of;

    in extremitate vitae,
      L. Ecg. P. i. tit. x; Th. ii. 170, 18.
  • Wé ðá bútan orenum (orwénum ?) þingum mete þigdon

    ab securis nobis epule capiuntur,

      Nar. 24, 2.
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v.  orenum.
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