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humble, lowly; submissive
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  • Eádmód

    humilis,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 76, 27.

  • Hnitol vel eádmód cernuus, pronus, vel

    inclinatus,

      19, 1.

  • Eádmód ástág in middangeard mægna goldhord,

      Cri. 786.

  • Þú (

    Hagar

    ) eáðmód ongin dreógan,
      Gen. 2281: Seef. 107: An. 270.

  • Eom ic eáðmód his ombiehthéra, þeów geþyldig,

      Gú. 571.
  • Wel gerás ꝥ heó wǽre eáðmód þá heó þone eáþmódan cyning bær, sé be him sylfum cwæþ, 'Ic eom mildheort and eáþmód,' Bl. H. 13, 16-19: 129, 12: Cri. 255.

  • Wearð Óswold eádmód on þeáwum,

      Hml. S. 26, 84.

  • Ne byð se eádmóda (

    humilis

    ) ǽfre gecyrred,
      Ps. Th. 73, 20.

  • Se eádmóda biscop wæs swíðe geðyldig wið þwyrum mannum,

      Hml. Th. ii. 514, 10.

  • Hé hié tó eáþmódre (eádmódere,

    v. l.

    ) hérsumnesse gedyde,
      Chr. 828; P. 62, 3.

  • Ábogenre, eádmódre cernua, i. humilis, An. Ox. 1278:

    suplici,

    1329.

  • Eádmódne on gáste

    humilem spiritu,

      Scint. 82, 16.

  • Ðá eáðmodan

    humiles,

      Past. 299, 1.

  • Uton beón eáþmóde and mildheorte,

      Bl. H. 95, 26.

  • Þú eádmódra ealra lócast

    Dominus humilia respicit,

      Ps. Th. 137, 6.

  • Þám eádmódum

    mediocribus,

      An. Ox. 4121.

  • Wæs heó on eallum þingum þe eáþmóddre,

      Bl. H. 13, 3.
gracious, gentle, condescending
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  • Þú (

    the Deity

    ) eádmód eart ealre worlde,
      Hy. 7, 57.

  • Leófa Hǽlend, þú eart se miccla and se eádmóda,

      3, 39.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. edmod. O. H. Ger. ót-mót humilis, abrogans.]
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Bosworth, Joseph. “eáþ-mód.” 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/43571.

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