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wraþu

  • noun [ feminine ]
  • adverb
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Grammar
wraþu, e; f.
A prop, stay, support
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  • Wraþe

    fulcimentum, i.

    adminiculum,

      Wülck. Gl. 245, 27.
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  • Se biscop hine onhylde tó ánre ðæra studa ðe útan tó ðære cyrican geseted wæs ðære cyricean tó wraþe

    (pro munimine),

    • Bd. 3, 17
      • ;
    • S. 543, 40.

  • Ðam wáge tó wræþe

    in munimentum parietis,

      S. 544, 24.

  • Tó wealles wraðe.

      Ps. Th. 117, 21.

  • Wraðe

    cimento,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 23, 51.

  • Wraðum

    columpnis,

      21, 70.
figurative, support, assistance
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  • Wérigra wraþu

    (St. Guthlac),

    • Exon. Th. 183, 34
      • ;
    • Gú. 1337.

  • Wísdómes wraðu, and witena frófur,

    • Runic pm. Kmbl. 340, 7
      • ;
    • Rún. 4.

  • Gyfu gumena byð . . . wraðu and weorðscype,

    • 340. 25
      • ;
    • Rún. 7.

  • Ðǽr bið á gearu wraðu wannhálum wíta gehwylces,

    • Eten. Kmbl. 2057
      • ;
    • El. 1030.

  • Wéne ic mé wraðe tó ðé

    ego in te sperabo,

      Ps. Th. 55, 3.

  • Wyrta ðú geworhtest tó wraðe manna

    producens herbam servituti hominum,

      103, 13.

  • Se mé wraþe healdeþ,

    • Exon. Th. 117, 7
      • ;
    • Gú. 220.

  • Ðǽr hí wraðe métaþ,

    • 215, 3
      • ;
    • Ph. 247.

  • Ðæt hý wraþe sécen, frófre tó feóndum,

    • 362, 12
      • ;
    • Wal. 35.

  • Ðǽr dú wraðe findest,

    • Elen. Kmbl. 168
      • ;
    • El. 84.

  • Him Freá ælmihtig fultum tióde, wíf áweahte, and ða wraðe sealde leófum rince,

    • Cd. Th. 11, 13
      • ;
    • Gen. 174.

  • Mæg secgan se ðe wyle sóð sprecan, ðæt se mondryhten, . . . ðonne hé gesealde helm and byrnan healsittendum, . . . gúðgewǽdu, wraðe (armour that ought to have proved of assistance to him; or wraðe; adv. ?) forwurpe,

    • Beo. Th. 5736
      • ;
    • B. 2872.
Similar entries
v. líf-wraþu; wræþ-studu, wreþian.
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Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “wraþu.” 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/36611.

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  • wraþu, n.; adv.

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