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a promise to do great things, a boast, boasting
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  • Ðá bóceras gýmaþ tó gebeótes þǽra fíf stafa þe synd vocales gecíged

    the grammarians make a boast of taking care of the five letters that are called vowels,

      Angl. viii. 327, 35.

  • Ðá andwyrde Petrus mid gebeóte : 'Ic ðé nǽfre ne ǽswicige . . . '. Se Hǽlend beseah tó Petre, and hé sóna gemunde his micclan gebeótes,

      Hml. Th. ii. 246, 1-248, 35.

  • Hé ofwearp Goliam þe mid gebeóte

    (with proud challenge

    ) clypode bysmor Godes folce,
      Hml. S. 18, 20.
a promise to do hurt, a threat, threatening
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  • Hé . . . gebealh hine, and mid gebeóte cwæð : ' Wite ðú ꝥ ðú wurðan scealt . . . ofslagen,

      Hml. A. 107, 146 : Hml. S. 3, 222.
  • Hé swór ꝥ hé hine wolde fordón. Ðá cwæð Georius him tó: ' Ic ne forht*-*ige for ðinum gebeóte, ' 14, 101.

  • Hé swór ꝥ hé Godes hús wolde for-bærnan . . . Hé eft genam fyrde, wolde his gebeót mid weorcum gefrem-man,

      25, 621.

  • Mid manna blódum þe ic þurh gebeót and þurh hát-heortnesse ágeát

    with men's blood that I shed through hot words and hot temper,

      Angl. xi. 113, 36.

  • Ádwǽsc nú ðás gebeót and ðás wópas tóbrec,

      Shrn. 68, 9.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-beót.” 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/47221.

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