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bróc

  • noun [ neuter ]
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bróc, es; pl. brócu; n: bróc, gebróc, metaphorically, that which violently breaks from the body or mind; hence,
Wright's OE grammar
§128; §344; §411;
Affliction, misery, tribulation, trouble, labour, adversity, a disease, malady, sickness; afflictio, miseria, tribulatio, labor, adversitas, morbus, ægritudo
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  • God nyle nán unaberendlíce bróc him ansettan

    God wishes not to put on them any unbearable affliction,

      Bt. 39, 10; Fox 228, 4.

  • Mid heardum bróce

    with severe [hard] affliction,

      Bt. 39, 11; Fox 228, 25.

  • He on ðæm bróce nyle alǽtan ðás eorþlican wilnunga

    in affliction he will not give up these earthly desires,

      Past. 37, 3; Hat. MS. 50 a, 18, 21, 22: 36, 4; Hat. MS. 47 b, 7.

  • Onðám brócum

    in these afflictions,

      Th. Diplm. A.D. 880-885; 485, 24.

  • Ðæt hit sý gefreód ǽghwylcere uneáþnesse ealles woroldlíces bróces

    that it be freed from every annoyance of all worldly trouble,

      1061; 389, 30: 864; 125, 13: Past. 37, 3; Hat. MS. 50 a, 7.

  • Ðæt biþ swíðe hefig bróc it is a very severe labour; gravis labor est, 61, 1; Hat. MS. Eucharius wæs þearle geswenct mid langsumum bróce

    Eucharius was much afflicted with a protracted disease,

      Homl. Th. ii. 24, 16: 176, 32.
  • Brócu miseriæ, Lye.
Derived forms
DER. ge-bróc.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “bróc.” 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/5182.

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