séfte
- adjective
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Delicatus, i. tenerus, querulus, amoenus unbrocheard
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séfta,- Wrt. Voc. ii. 139, 40.
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Drihten is swýðe séfte
suavis est Dominus,
- Ps. Th. 33, 8.
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Weorð úrum synnum séfte and milde
propitius esto peccatis nostris,
- 78, 9.
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Ðæt is, for hwí se góda lǽce selle ðam hálum men séftne drenc and swétne, and óðrum hálum biterne and strangne,
- Bt. 39, 9 ; Fox 226, 11.
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Ðú eart seó séfte ræst sóðfæstra,
- Bt. 33, 4 ; Fox 132, 34.
- Rád byþ on recyde rinca gehwylcum séfte, Runic pm. Kmbl. 340, 13 ; Rún. 5.
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Dóþ síðfæt séftne and rihtne,
- Ps. Th. 67, 4.
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Ful séfte seld, ðæt hí sǽton on,
- 88, 3.
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Hé his líchoman forwyrnde séftra setla and symbeldaga,
- Exon. Th. 111, 33 ; Gú. 136.
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Sélre mé wæs and séftre,
- Ps. Th. 118, 71.
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Ðone deáþ hé him gedéþ séftran ðonne óðrum monnum, Bt. 39, 10 ; Fox 228, 10. IVa. in a bad sense, luxurious, voluptuous, effeminate :-- Ðý ne sceolde nán wís man wilnian séftes lífes gif hé ǽnigra cræfta récþ
neque enim vos in provectu positi virtutis, diffluere deliciis, et emarcescere voluptate venistis,
- Bt. 40, 3 ; Fox 238, 13.
Bosworth, Joseph. “séfte.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/27328.
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