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frum-bearn

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a first-born child, the eldest child
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  • His wíf sunu on woruld bróhte, se eafora wæs Enoc háten, freólic frumbearn,

      Gen. 1189: 1056.
  • Þám yldestan eaforan, frumbearne, 1215.
  • Hé slóh ǽghwylc frumbearn

    percussit omne primogenitum,

      Ps. Th. 104, 31.
  • Frumbearna gehwylc,

      77, 51: Exod. 38.
  • Æðele frumbearn

    primogenita, 134, 8. ¶ figurative :-- Banan mancynnes fácnes frumbearn (the devil ),

      An. 1296.
one of the first two or three children, an elder child
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  • Adames and Euan aforan wǽron freólicu twá frumbearn cenned, Cain and Abel,

      Gen. 968.
  • Þá yldestan Chus and Cham hátene wǽron, frumbearn Chames, 1618.
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