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weorold-ríca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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weorold-ríca, an; m.
A man of great worldly power or wealth
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  • Gif him ǽnig heáfodman hwilces þinges forwyrnde . . . him sóna getíðode his Scyppendes árfæstnys ðæs ðe se woruldríca him forwyrnde on ǽr,

      Homl. Th. ii. 514, 17.
  • Ne cyning ne woruldríca,

      Lchdm. iii. 442, 36.
  • Unrihtwíse déman and geréfan and ealle ða wóhgeornan woruldrícan mid heora golde and seolfre and godwebbum and eallum ungestreónum. Wulfst. 183, 8. v. next word.
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  • weorold-ríca, n.