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geómor

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§51; §121; §268; §431;
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of persons,
feeling sad
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  • Hige geómor, swýðe mid sorgum gedréfed,

      Jud. 87.

  • Him wæs geómor sefa, . . . hyge murnende,

      Cri. 499.

  • Geómor sefa, murnende mód,

      B. 49.

  • Geómor sefa, hyge gnornende,

      Gú. 1181.

  • Sefa geómor, mód morgenseóc,

      Hy. 4, 94.

  • Hé geómor wearð, sárig for his synnum,

      Dóm. 87.

  • Ic þis giedd wrece bi mé ful geómorre, Kl. 1. I a.

    sad

    of soul, at heart :-- Hé módes geómor meregrund gefeóll,
      B. 2100. I b.

  • Reónigmóde . . . gehðum geómre,

      El. 322.
expressing sadness, melancholy
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  • Hé ongann geómran stefne hearmleóð galan,

      An. 1128: Met. 1, 84.
  • [Perhaps the passage under geómor-gid (geómor gid?) might be taken here.?
having a cheerless sound or
appearance
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  • Þeós geómre lyft

    triste coelum,

      Exod. 430.

  • Geác monað geómran reorde,

      Seef. 53.
of a season in which sadness is experienced
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  • In þá geómran tíd (

    the last day

    ),
      Ph. 517.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “geómor.” 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/49148.

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