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wan-spéd

  • noun [ feminine ]
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wan-spéd, e; f.
Wright's OE grammar
§592;
Poverty, indigence
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  • Þurh wanspéde

    per inopiam,

      Scint. 226, 6.
  • On ðæm gefeohte wæs ǽrest anfunden Sciþþia wanspéda

    ea res primo fidem inopiae Scythicae dedit,

      Ors. 3, 7; Swt. 116, 34.
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Cf. wan-ǽht.
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  • wan-spéd, n.