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wil-sum

  • adjective
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wil-sum, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§636;
desirable, pleasant
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  • Ðam

    bið gæst Godes âgen bearn, wilsum in worlde,
      Exon. Th. 318, 11; Mod. 81.
  • Eorðan wilsume

    terram desiderabilem

    ,
      Ps. Surt. 105, 24.
  • Ðæt willsume weorc onginnan

    desideratum opus inire

    ,
      Bd. 5, 11; S. 625, 33.
  • Wilsum

    desiderabilia

    ,
      Ps. Surt. 18, 11.
  • Of ðám wilsuman wyllgespryngum

    from the pleasant well-springs

    ,
      Exon. Th. 205, 7 ; Ph. 109.
willing, voluntary, spontaneous
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  • Wilsumne regn pluviam voluntariam, Ps. Th. Spl. 67, 10 : Blickl. Gl. Ðone wilsuman

    spontaneum

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 32, 65.
  • Him (a child whose father is dead) man an his fæderingmágum wilsumne (willing, ready to undertake the guardianship; or under I (?),

    desirable, suitable, sufficient)

    berigean geselle his feoh tó healdenne,
      L. H. E. 6; Th. i. 30, 5.
  • Mid selfwillum ł wilsumum

    ultroneis, voluntariis

    ,
      Hpt. Gl. 435, 64.
  • Wilsum múðes mínes

    voluntaria oris mei

    ,
      Ps. Surt. 118, 108.
devout, devoted
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  • Gode se willsuma wer

    vir Deo devotus

    ,
      Bd. 4, 11; S. 579, 5.
  • Gode seó willsume fǽmhe,

      4, 26 ; S. 603, 5.
  • Gode willsumra wífmonna láreów, 4, 6; S. 574, 16: 4, 19;

    S.

      588, 2.
  • Hé sylfa wæs se wilsumesta (

    devolissimus

    ) lǽstend,
      5, 22 ; S. 644, 4.
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v. ge-, un-wilsum.
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v.  will-sum.
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