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wan

  • adjective
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wan, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§425; §592;
wanting, absent
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  • Ðá getreówde hé in godcundne fultom, ðǽr se mennesca wan wæs

    confidens in divinum, ubi humanum deerat, auxilium,

      Bd. 2, 7 ; S. 509, 23.
  • Him won (wona, MS. Ca. ) ne wæs seó morning ðære godcundan árfæstnesse

    non defuit admonitio divinae pietatis,

      4, 25 ; S. 599, 23.
  • Ne wiht mé wonu bið

    nihil mihi deerit,

      Ps. Surt. 22, I : 33, 10.
  • Ǽr ðon ðe Drihten on heofenas ástige, þonon hé nǽfre won wæs þurh his godcundnesse miht,

      Blickl. Homl. 131, 17.
lacking, not possessed of
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  • Wé tíres wone á bútan ende sculon ermþu dreógan,

      Exon. Th. 17, 15; Cri. 270.
with numerals (v. læs), less. Cf. wana; adj. IIIa
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  • Ðæt ríce hé hæfde ánes won ðe twéntig wintra,

      Bd. 4, I ; M. 252, 9.
  • Ánes won be syxtig wintra,

      3, 24; M. 238, 2.
  • Ánes won þe twéntig wintra,

      5, 1 ; M. 386, 23.
  • Gewurþad mid ðám æþelestum ceastrum ánes won ðe ðrittigum, l, l; S. 473, 26 note.
Etymology
[Goth. wans wanting (Tit. l, 6): O. Sax. wan, O. Frs. won: O. H. Ger. wan wesan deesse : Icel. vanr.]
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v. wana; adj.
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