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progress, advance, v. fremman; I
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  • Hé ne mihte wiðwiþerian þæs hálgan mannes fremmingum (

    profectibus

    ),
      Gr. D. 117, 20.
a doing, accomplishing, v. fremman; II. 2.
the doing, operation of an agent
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  • Swá hwæt swá on ðám húsle is þe ús lífes edwist forgifð, þæt is of ðǽre gástlican mihte and ungeswenlicere fremminge,

      Hml. Th. ii. 270, 26.

  • Miht þú witan þæt weorc sprecan swíðor þonne þá nacodan word þe nabbað náne fremminge, Ælfc. T. Grn. 21, 25. (1 a)

    with gen. of agent

    :-- 'Gif ic on Godes fingre deófla ádrǽfe' ... Nis ná tó understandenne be ðæs limes micelnysse, ac be ðǽra fingra fremminge,
      Hml. Th. ii. 204, 6.
  • Þurh ðæs Hálgan Gástes fremminge wearð Críst ácenned on dǽre menniscnysse, i. 198, 31.
the doing of an action
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  • Se Hǽlend hæfde þone gódan willan tó ðám fóstre and þá mihte tó ðǽre fremminge, Hml. Th. i. 184, 22: 306, 8: Hml. A. 11, 272. (2 a)

    with gen. of what is done

    :-- Þǽre lufe fandung is þæs weorces fremming,
      Hml. Th. ii. 314, 29.

  • Ágyfan Gode þínre carfulnysse weorc and fremmincge ... Æfter ðínre carfulnysse gódre fremmincge,

      334, 23-27.

  • Wé áweriað ús mid þǽre segene, áweriað eów mid þǽre láre fremminge,

      402, 27.

  • For ðǽre synne fremminge,

      Hex. 22, 29.

  • Se Hálga Gást is genemned tó ðǽre fremminge Crístes menniscnysse, Hml. Th. i. 196, 22 (cf. 198, 31

    supra

    ). Ðurh geswicenysse yfeles and ðurh fremminge gódes,
      332, 4.

  • Fremmincgum

    effectibus (operum ),

      An. Ox. 1332.
  • Tó gódum fremmingum fulfremedra dǽda. Hml. A. 48, 581.
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v. ge-, wel-fremming.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “fremming.” 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/46376.

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