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wíd-mǽre

  • adjective
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wíd-mǽre, adj.
Far-famed, famous, celebrated; in a bad sense, notorious.
of persons
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  • Sume teohhiaþ ðæt ðæt betst sý, ðæt mon seó foremǽre and wídmǽre

    quibus optimum quiddam claritas videtur,

      Bt. 24, 2 ; Fox 82, 10.

  • Wídmǽre wer . . . hé moncynnes mǽste hæfde mægen and strengo,

      Cd. Th. 98, 14; Gen. 1630.

  • Wídmǽre cynn,

      158, 16 ; Gen. 2618.
of things
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  • Án wundorlíc tácn gelamp, swá wídmǽre ðæt feáwa wǽron on ðære neáwiste ðe ðæt ne gesáwe, oððe ne gehýrde,

      Homl. Th. ii. 28, 35.

  • Hú Caudenes Furculus sió stów wearþ swíþe wídmǽre for Rómána bismere,

      Ors. 3, 8, tit.; Swt. 3, 10.

  • Wídmǽre gewin (

    the war of the apostate angels),

      Exon. Th. 317, 1; Mód. 59.

  • Wídmǽre blǽst

    (the fire that shall consume the world),

      60, 27; Cri. 976.

  • Swá gé sweotolran and wídmǽrran gedóð eówre tǽlweorðlícnesse

    tanto foedior vestra reprehensibilitas appareat,

      Past. 8 ; Swt. 53, 15.

  • Hafaþ se cantic wídmǽrost word,

      Salm. Kmbl. 101; Sal. 50.
Etymology
[O. H. Ger. wít-mári insignis.]
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wíd-mǽre.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/35564.

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