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  • Fremful

    beneficus, benefactor,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 125, 31.
  • Fremfulra

    utilium,

      An. Ox. 56, 310.
of persons,
beneficent, benignant
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  • Drihten wiste hú fremful hé beón wolde,

      Lch. iii. 436, 21.
  • Hí syndon fremfulle (

    benigni

    ) menn,
      Nar. 38, 22.
of things,
useful, beneficial, advantageous
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  • Ðysse wyrte wós ys swýðe fremful,

      Lch. i. 152, 15.
  • Se drænc is frymful tó begánne, iii. 60, 2.
  • Wé foresceáwiað and fremful taliað tó gehealdsumnesse gemǽnre sibbe þæt mynstres fadung on ðæs abbodes dóme stande

    nos previdimus expedire propter pacis custodiam in abbatis pendere arbitrio ordinationem monasterii,

      R. Ben. 125, 5.
  • Mid mycelum and fremfullun. (

    subtili

    ) gesceádes tódále,
      Angl. xiii. 369, 52.
  • God cwæð be synfullum mannum twá word swíde fremfulle,

      Hml. Th. ii. 602, 7: Hml. S. 12, 146.
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[v. N.E.D. fremeful.]
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v. un-fremful; fremfulnes.
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