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Substitute: Miserable, wretched.
suffering misfortune, hardship, &c.
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  • Gewát þá earmsceapen (

    Nebuchadnezzar

    ) eft síðian, nacod nýdgenga, wundorlic wræcca tó mancynne,
      Dan. 632.

  • Ne mihte earmsceapen (

    the youth about to be eaten by the cannibals

    ) áre findan æt þám folce,
      An. 1131.
in a moral sense
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  • Saga, earmsceapen unclǽne gǽst,

      Jul. 418: An. 1347.

  • Earmsceapen on weres wæstmum (

    Grendel

    ),
      B. 1351.

  • Se earmsceapena man,

      Antecríst, Wlfst. 54, 16.

  • Se sylfa deófol . . . wyrð on þám earmsceapenan men,

      Antecríste, ICI, 7.

  • Þis atule gewrixl earmsceape (-sceapene? cf. the same passage in Wlfst. 138, 30: Þá earmsceapenan men) men on worulda woruld wendað

    his miseris vicibus miseri volvuntur in aevum,

      Dóm. L. 196.

  • Mǽrðe þára háligra, earmsceapenra wítu

    gaudia sanctorum, poenas malorum,

    23.

  • Ðá micelan wíta þe þǽr beóð þám earmsceapenan for heora ǽrdǽdum gegearwode,

      Wlfst. 137, 1.
Etymology
[O. Sax. arm-skapan unhappy, unfortunate. Cf. Icel. arm-skapaðr miserable.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “earm-sceapen.” 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/43451.

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