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of persons.
sad-hearted, sad of soul, sorrowful
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  • Þá wearð Esau swíðe sárig and geómormód (

    consternatus

    ),
      Gen. 27, 34.

  • Cain gewát gongan geómormód, wineleás wrecca,

      Gen. 1050.

  • Ic teáras sceal geótan geómormód,

      Cri. 173.
  • Geómormód, . . . earg and unrót, 1407: Hy. 10, 29.

  • Á scyle geong mon wesan geómormód, heard heortan geþoht, swylce habban sceal blíþe gebǽro

    if a young man must ever be sad of soul, brave heart's thought, also cheery bearing must he have,

      Kl. 42.

  • Geómormódes drúsendne hyge,

      Gú. 1033.

  • Gewitan him (

    the apostles after the ascension

    ) gongan . . . geómormóde,
      Cri. 535: An. 406.
gloomy from a sense of evil fortune or danger
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  • Eald æscwiga, se þe eall geman gárcwealm gumena (him bið grim sefa), onginneð geómormód geongum cempan . . . higes cunnian,

      B. 2044.

  • Þám folce geómormódum (

    the people threatened by Holofernes' army

    ),
      Jud. 144.
of birds
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  • Fugelas cyrrað from þám gúþfrecan geómormóde eft tó earde,

      Ph. 353.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “geómor-mód.” 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/49153.

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