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un-fǽhð

  • noun [ feminine ]
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un-fǽhð, e; f.
Absence of hostility; the word refers to the abstention from the prosecuting of the feud, which under certain conditions it would be allowable for the kinsmen of a man to follow up
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  • Se ðe þeóf geféhð, hé áh .x. sciłł.... and ða mǽgas him swerian áðas unfǽhða (cf. unceáses áð, 35; Th. i. 124, 8, the circumstances in the two cases being similar),

    • L. In. 28
    • ;
    • Th. i. 120, 6.
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v. un-fáh.
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  • un-fǽhð, n.