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weorold-gebyrd

  • noun [ feminine ]
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weorold-gebyrd, weorold-gebyrdu; f.
Birth (natural not spiritual)
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  • Hé wæs on his móde æþelra ðonne on woruldgebyrdum

    erat animo quam carne nobilior,

      Bd. 3, 19; S. 547, 26.
  • Wæs heó æþele in weoruldgebyrdum, ðæt heó wæs ðæs cyninges nefan dohtor

    nobilis natu erat, hoc est, filia nepotis regis,

      4, 23; S. 593, 2.
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v. ge-byrd.
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  • weorold-gebyrd, n.