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cowardly, timid, spiritless
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  • Earh

    tremibundus, i. pavidus,

      An. Ox. 1865: 4896.

  • Þone ungemetlíce eargan þe him ondrǽt máre þonne hé þurfe

    pavidus ac fugax non metuenda formidat,

      Bt. 37, 4; F. 192, 21.

  • Earge ignavi, Wrt. Voc. ii. 46, 13:

    inertes,

      92, 36.

  • Eálá gé eargan and ídelgeornan, hwý gé swá unnytte sión and swá áswundene,

      Bt. 40, 4; F. 238, 30.

  • Eargra

    timidorum, i. timentium,

      An. Ox. 739.

  • Mid eargum

    formidilosis, 4894: meticulosis, i. tremebundis,

    5271.

  • Þá consulas noldon hié selfe swá earge geþencan swá hié þá wífmen forcwǽdon,

      Ors. 4, 10; S. 194, 15.

  • Þá eargan mengo

    fugaces turmas,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 151, 48.

  • Þonan ðe hí teohhiaþ ꝥ hí scylan eádigran weorþan, ꝥ hí weorþan ðonan earmran and eargran,

      Bt. 26, 2; F. 92, 27.
vicious, profligate, prodigal. v. earg-ness, -scipe
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  • Geddung from ðǽm argæ sune

    parabola de luxurioso filio,

      Lk. p. 8, 18.
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v. arg, earh in Dict.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “earg.” 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/43420.

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