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sorh-full

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sorh-full, adj.
full of care or
anxiety, careful, anxious,
feeling anxiety
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  • Seldan snottor guma sorgleás blissaþ swylce dol seldon drýmeþ sorgful ymbe his forðgesceaft nefne hé fǽhþe wite

    seldom does the prudent man rejoice without anxiety about his future, just as the fool seldom rejoices with trembling, unless he know that hostility (or death? fǽhþe from fǽge?) is near,

      Exon. Th. 303, 19; Fä. 55.

  • Symble beó gé sorhfulle for eówre sáwle hǽlo

    ever be ye solicitous for your soul's salvation,

      L. E. I. prm.; Th. ii. 394, 14.

  • Ðæt hé sorgfulra sié ymb hine selfne

    ut circa se solicitius vivant,

      Past. 28, 2; Swt. 191, 19.
attended with anxiety, causing anxiety
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  • Ðeós woruld is sorhful

    the present time is full of anxieties,

      Wulfst. 189, 6.

  • Ne inc ǽnig mon beleán mihte sorhfulne síð (

    the perilous swimming match of Beowulf and Breca

    ),
      Beo. Th. 1028; B. 512.
sorrowful, mournful, sad,
feeling sorrow or
grief
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  • Oft se welega and se wædla habbaþ suá gehweorfed hira þeáwum ðæt se welega biþ eáðmód and sorgfull, and se wædla biþ upáhæfen and selflíce,

      Past. 26, 2; Swt. 183, 11.

  • Ic eom þearfa and sorhful

    ego sum pauper et dolens,

      Ps. Lamb. 68, 30.

  • Sorhfull,

      Ps. Th. 85, 1.

  • Ic sceal gnornian seóc and sorhful,

      Cd. Th. 281, 20; Sat. 275.

  • Módor síðode sorhful], sunu deáþ fornam,

      Beo. Th. 4244; B. 2119.

  • Hig heora synna andetton mid sorhfullum móde,

      Jud. 10, 10.

  • Hé hafaþ wérige heortan, sefan sorhfulne,

      Salm. Kmbl. 757; Sal. 378.

  • Ða sorgfullan

    illi quos caminus paupertatis excoquit,

      Past. 26, 1; Swt. 183, 4.
attended with or
causing sorrow, grievous
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  • Módor gegán wolde sorhfulne síð, sunu wrecan, Beo Th. 2560; B. 1278.

  • Ða sorhfullan sáule wunde,

      Ps. C. 50, 141.

  • Adam and Eve in ðás deáðdene drohtað sóhton, sorgfulran gesetu,

      Exon. Th. 227, 2; Ph. 417.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. sorg-fol sollicitus: Icel. sorg-fullr.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “sorh-full.” 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/28324.

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