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weorold-bót

  • noun [ feminine ]
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weorold-bót, e; f.
' Bót' prescribed by the secular power in contrast with 'godcund bót,' that prescribed by the church
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  • Ða woruldbóte hig gesetton . . . swá hwár swá man nolde godcunde bóte gebúgan mid rihte tó bisceopa dihte,

      L. E. G. proem.; Th. i. 166, 16.
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