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un-forworht

  • adjective
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un-forworht, [different from preceding word.
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v. fór-wyrcan
(l. for-), and cf.
O. H. Ger. furi-wurchen obstruere
]; adj.
Unobstructed, without hindrance, free; the term is used of land that after several lives was to revert to the grantor, and seems to render the word immunis in the Latin charters
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  • On ða gerád, weorce hé ðæt hé weorce, ðæt ðæt land seó unforworht intó ðære hálgan stowe

    (the Latin previously in the same charter is: Ad usum primatis in Weogornaceastre redeat inmunis. See also the passage: Tellus episcopali restituatur cathedrae absque ullius controversiae obstaculo,

    • iii. 232, 24
    ),
    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. ii. 396, 33: 397, 29: 384, 22.
    (The formula is common in Oswald's charters. See
    • Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. xxxiii
    , and Kemble's Saxons in England,
    • i. 312.
    )
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Bosworth, Joseph. “un-forworht.” 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/32971.

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