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duguþ

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Wright's OE grammar
§218; §286; §320; §390;
Add: The word is sometimes masc.
virtue, excellence
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  • Sinope tó eácan hiere hwætscipe and hiere monigfealdum duguþum hiere líf geendade on mægðháde

    Sinope singulorum virtutis gloriam perpetua virginitate cumulavit,

      Ors. 1, 10; S. 46, 25.

  • Sé wǽre wierðe ealra Rómána onwaldes for his monigfealdum duguðum

    vir strenuus et probus, atque Augusto dignus,

      6, 35; S. 292, 16.
power, strength
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  • Þonne land wurðeð for sinnum forworden and þæs folces duguð swíðost fordwíneð, þonne féhð seó weáláf synna bemǽnan,

      Wlfst. 133, 12.

  • God lét Engla here ... Brytta dugeðe fordón mid ealle,

      166, 20.
in a collective sense of persons.
a strong body of people, host (especially in a military sense)
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  • Duguðes (duguðe, Wülck. Gl. 442, 1),

    militiae,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 55, 18.

  • Gehýr mé, dugoþa cásere,

      Bl. H. 175, 11.

  • Þú, þonne, dugoþa cyning,

      177, 1.
a body of great men, nobility, retainers of a chief,
a senate
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  • Ealdermanna duguð

    senatus,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 18, 38.

  • Ælfún abbod and þegenas ǽgðer ge of Eást-Cent ge of West-Cent, eal seó duguð,

      Cht. Th. 302, 30.

  • Hé beád ꝥ eall ꝥ folc cóme and eal seó dugoþ Rómána folces,

      Bl. H. 187, 13.
  • Eóde Porrus se kyning mé on hond mid ealle his ferde and dugoþe. Nar. 19, 17.

  • Þǽr gelífde sum ríce man mid ealre his duguðe,

      Chr. 627; P. 25, 24.

  • Dugheþe

    senatu,

      An. Ox. 4041.
men who are good for something, the flower of a people
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  • Þǽr wearð ofslagen Eádnóð biscop and Wulsige aƀƀ. and Godwine ealdorman ... and eall se dugoð (seó duguð (-að),

    v. ll.

    ) on
      Angelcinne, Chr. 1016; P. 152, 8.

  • On ðǽm swicdóme wearþ Numantia duguð gefeallen

    Numantini, interfectis suorum fortissimis, bello cedunt,

      Ors. 5, 3; S. 222, 8.
a benefit, good, what does good to a person
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  • Ðám hé geúðe ǽlcere dugeðe gif Maxentius him wolde ábúgan,

      Hml, Th. ii. 304, 19.

  • Ús gedafenað tó dónne dugeðe on sibbe mid éstfullum móde menniscum gesceafte,

      318, 16.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. douth.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “duguþ.” 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/43055.

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