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twi-sprǽc

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Grammar
twi-sprǽc, e; f.
Double speech, unfair speech, detraction
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  • Fácon and éswico and æfisto and allo tuispréco

    dolum et simulationes et invidias et omnes detractiones,

      Rtl. 25, 25.
Etymology
[Sowen we defles sed ... ivele word, hoker and scorn, ... and cheast, and twispeche, and curs, and leasinges, ... and alle swikele speches, Rel. Ant. i. 129, 24.]
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  • twi-sprǽc, n.