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þearfend-líc

  • adjective
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þearfend-líc, adj.
Poor,
of persons,
indigent, destitute
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  • Monnes bearn (

    Guthlac in his hermitage

    ) swá þearfendlíc,
      Exon. Th. 128, 11; Gú. 402.
of things,
scanty, insufficient
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  • Ðæt ðú ne forgite míne þearfendlícan gegirlan (cf. se fiscere tóslát his wǽfels on twá and sealde Apollonige ðone healfan dǽl,

      11, 27), Ap. Th. 12, 8.
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  • þearfend-líc, adj.