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un-swice

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
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Grammar
un-swice, es; m. (or -swic, es; n. ?)
Good faith, absence of deceit or treachery
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  • Ðá gyrnde hé griðes and gísla, ðet hé móste unswican intó gemóte cuman and út of gemóte

    he required safeconduct and hostages, that he might come to the meeting and go from it without treachery,

    • Chr. 1048
    • ;
    • Erl. 180, 7.
Etymology
[Cf.
Icel. verða fyrir svikum to be exposed to treachery.
]
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  • un-swice, n.