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fullwiht-fæder

  • noun [ masculine ]
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fullwiht-fæder, (fulwiht-)
a baptismal father, expressing the relation of the baptizer to the person baptized
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  • Kynegils his fulluhtfæder Sc̃e Birine geúþe (cf. Cynegils wæs gefulwad from Birino,

      Chr. 635), Cht. Th. 115, 31.
  • Marcus wæs mid Petre . . . Petrus wæs his godfæder, and hé lange folgode his fulluhtfæder Petre,

      Hml. S. 15, 144.
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  • fullwiht-fæder, n.