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of physical darkness
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  • Bið úpheofon sweart and gesworcen

    tristius coelum tenebris obducitur atris,

      Dón. L. 105 : Wlfst. 137, 9.
of dark passions,
sadness
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  • Ic geþencan ne mæg for hwan módsefa mín ne gesweorce,

      Wand. 59.
fear
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  • Wé férað gesworcene mid ege and mid fyrhðu,

      Verc. Forst. 147, 18.
anger
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  • Wearð gecýdd þám cyninge embe Iudan sige, and he geswearc on móde

    (when king Antiochius heard these things, he was full of indignation,

    I
      Mace. iii. 27), Hml. S. 25, 329.
of mental darkness
, to become unconscious, lose perceptive power (?)
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  • Ic geswearc swá swá dead from heortan

    excidi tamquam mortuus a corde,

      Ps. Vos. 30, 13.
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