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  • Ðá ðe Críste folgiað on hwítum gyrlum; and hí standað ætforan his ðrymme bútan ǽlcere gewemmednysse, Hml. Th. i. 90, 2. I a.

    corruption, decay, death :-- Gewemmednysse corruptionis, i. mortis,

      An. Ox. 3999.
  • Hé búton ǽlcere gewemmednysse wuldrað mid Gode ... him nán þing wiðinnan ne eglað ǽnigre brosnunge oððe gewǽcednysse,

      Hml. Th. ii. 552, 24.
moral,
corruption, pollution, impurity
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  • Gewemednysse

    corruptionis (humanae spurcitiis carens ),

      An. Ox. 3712.
  • Mid þon gewunon þǽre gewemmednesse synna and mána full, Bl. H. 75, 6. II a. of improper sexual intercourse :-- Geheald þás þíne þínena wið ǽlcere gewemmednysse, Hml. Th. ii. 478, 10. II b.

    an impure action

    :-- Hí férdon on heora ídelum lustum and on gewemmednyssum,
      Ælfc. T. Grn. 17, 15.
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v. un-gewemmedness.
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v.  ge-wæmnednes -wemmedness.
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