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a band, company; of large numbers, a host
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  • Sóðfæste (

    the righteous at the day of judgement),

    eádigra gedryht,
      El. 1290: Ph. 635.
  • Gǽsta gedryht Hǽlend hergað, 615.

  • Seó æðele gedryht

    the host of heaven,

      Sal. 456.

  • Mid þá leóhtan gedryht, wuldres áras,

      El. 737.

  • Sóhte ic þá wloncan gedryht Wiðmyrginga,

      Víd. 118.

  • Þá geseah ic þá gedriht (þege driht,

      MS.) in
    gedwolan lifgan, Israéla cyn unriht dón, Dan. 22.

  • Ofer ealle æðelinga gedriht (cf. Sodomware . . . corðrum miclum, 2451),

      Gen. 2462.
a band of followers,
retinue, company of retainers
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  • Ic and mínra eorla gedryht (cf. hé fífténa sum sundwudu sóhte, 207),

      B. 431.
  • Ic sǽbát gesæt mid mínra secga gedriht, 633.
  • Hróðgár sæt mid his eorla gedriht, 357: 118: 62.
  • Sibbe gedriht, 387 : 729.

  • Se brego mǽra (Christ) his þegna gedryht (

    the disciples)

    gelaðade, leóf weorud,
      Cri. 457.
  • Wile mid his engla gedryht Meotod on gemót cuman, 942.
  • Gé geseóð Dryhten faran . . . mid þás engla gedryht, 515.
a host of warriors
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  • Seó eorla gedriht (

    the Israelites marching through the Red Sea

    ] ánes módes, Exod. 304.

  • Wáron hwate weras gearwe tó gúðe . . ., fór folca gedryht,

      El. 27.
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v. hí-gedryht, sib-gedryht, wil-gedryht.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “ge-dryht.” 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/47714.

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