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everywhere.
where there is motion,
all over an area, throughout a space
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  • Heora fýnd férdon freólíce gehwǽr swá þicce swá gærstapan

    ipsi veniebant et instar locustarum universa complebant

    ,
      Jud. 6, 5.

  • Gehwár ábútan woffiende

    circumquaque debachantes

    ,
      An. Ox. 3775.

  • Þearfe bringeð Maius micle geond menigeo gehwár,

      Men. 79.
to every place
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  • Hé férde fram Antiochiam, for þan þe hé wæs apostol, and sceolde gehwǽr gecuman and Crístendóm árǽran (cf. dixit eis: ' euntes in mundum universum praedicate euan-gelium, ' Mk. 16, 15),

      Hml. S. 10, 13.
where there is doing or being,
all over a limited area
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  • Wæs micel hearm gedón gehwǽr be þǽm sǽriman. Chr. 981; P. 124, 12.

  • Gewaer parumper (the passage in which the word occurs is :-- Interea Brittania cessatum quidem est

    parumper

    ab externis bellis,
      Bd. 1, 22.

  • The glosser seems to have read this as meaning that

    everywhere

    war with outsiders had ceased),
      Txts. 182, 84.
at every place where a certain condition is possible
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  • Gehwǽr sácerdas and mæssepreóstas betwih wíbedum wǽron slægene

    passim sacerdotes inter altaria trucidabantur

    ,
      Bd. I. 15; Sch. 43, 15.
denoting frequent occurrence,
in very many places
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  • Gehwár (-hwǽr,

    v. l.) passim, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 236, 14. ꝥ man swá geongne man cwealde . . . swá hé geáxod hæfde þe man gehwǽr (ubique )

    dyde,
      Ll. Th. i. 240, 26.

  • Óðre béc man hæfð wíde gehwǽr on crístendóme Críste tó lofe,

      Ælfc. T. Grn. 19, 39.
  • (cc) of statements in books :-- Hit is áwriten on Crístes béc, and gehwǽr on óþrum bócum, Hml. Th. i. 136, 24.
in every instance
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  • Hé ꝥ in scopgereorde mid þá mǽstan swétnesse geglencde, and in Englisc gereorde wel gehwǽr forðbróhte. Bd. 4,

      24; Sch. 481, 12.
indefinite.
anywhere without restriction,
anywhere one pleases,
of motion
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  • Gif hrýðera hwelc sié þe hegas brece and gá in gehwǽr (

    quolibet

    ),
      Ll. Th. i. 128, 12.
of position
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  • Þá welmas þá þe beóþ gehwǽr geond þone líchoman,

      Lch. ii. 204, 14.
somewhere
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  • Wæs eác eorðstynung on manegum stówum on Wygracestre and on Wíc and on Deórbý and elles gehwǽr (

    in some other places

    ) and eác ꝥ wilde fýr on Deórbýscíre micel yfel dyde and gehwǽr elles,
      Chr. 1049 ; P. 167, 24-27.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “gehwǽr.” 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/48431.

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