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wirs

  • adverb
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Grammar
wirs, cpve.: wirrest, wirst; spve.;
adv. Worse, worst
in reference to moral ill
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  • Wyrs déð se ðe lýhð

    • Salm. Kmbl. 364
    • ;
    • Sal. 181.
  • Ðonne hié wénen ðæt hié hæbben betst gedón, ðæt wé him ðonne secgen ðæt hié hæbben wierst (wyrst,

      Cott. MSS.
    ) gedón

    cum ea, quae bene egisse se credant, male acta monstramus,

    • Past. 32; Swt. 209, 17.
Grammar
wirs, marking an inferior degree of what is desirable or proper
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  • Ðæt hié wiers ne dón ðonne him man bebeóde

    ne minus, quae jubentur, impleant,

    • Past. 28; Swt. 189, 18.
  • Ðý læs hira lufu áslacige, and hé him ðe wirs lícige,

    • Past. 19; Swt. 143, 10.
  • Se æfterra anweald git wyrs lícode ðonne se ǽrra,

    • Bt. 16, 2
    • ;
    • Fox 50, 13.
  • Ic mín fulluht wyrs geheóld ðonne icbehéte,

    • L. Edg. C. 9
    • ;
    • Th. ii. 264, 8
    • :
    • L. Ath. iv. proem.
    • ;
    • Th. i. 220, 2.
  • Hé ðý wyrs meahte þolian ða þráge,

      Met. 1, 76.
  • Se arcebiscop wénde ðæt hit sum óðer mann ábiddan wolde, ðe hé his wyrs trúwude and úðe,

    • Chr. 1043
    • ;
    • Erl. 169, 28.
  • Oft hit gesǽleþ dæt his ǽhta weorþaþ on ðæs onwealde, ðe hé ǽr on his lífe wyrrest úþe,

      Blickl. Homl. 195, 4.
Grammar
wirs, marking unfavourable condition, a higher degree of what is unpleasant or improper
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  • Ðý læs him ðý wirs (wiers,

      Cott. MSS
    .) sié, gif hié ða trumnesse ðære Godes giefe him tó unnyte gehweorfaþ,

    • Past. 36
    • ;
    • Swt. 247, 7.
  • wyrs geférdan (geférdon máran hearm and yfel v. ll. ), ðonne hí ǽfre wéndan,

    • Chr. 994; Th. i. 241, col. 2.
  • Eów wyrs gelomp,

    • Exon. Th. 142, 1
    • ;
    • Gú. 637.
  • Ne wæs hyra ǽnigum ðý wyrs, ne síde ðý sárra,

    • 394, 19
    • ;
    • Rä. 14, 5.
  • Hé bið on ðæt wynstre weorud wyrs gesceáden ðonne hé on ða swíþran hond swícan móte,

    he will be assigned to the host on the left hand by a sentence too stern to allow him to pass to the right hand,

    • 449, 23
    • ;
    • Dóm. 75.
  • Hit ðé wyrs ne mæg hreówan ðonne hit mé déð,

    you cannot repent it more bitterly than I do,

    • Cd. Th. 51, 12
    • ;
    • Gen. 825.
  • Heora weóldan ða him wyrrest ǽr on feóndscipe gestódon,

      Ps. Th. 105, 30.
  • Wyrst,

      Met. 24, 60.
Etymology
Goth. wairs
;
O. Sax. wirs
;
O. H. Ger. wirs
;
Icel. verr; cpve.; verst; spve.
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v.  wyrs wiers wirrest.
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