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heard-lic

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bold, warlike.
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Cf. heard; II, 1.
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  • Wíglice, heardlice

    bellicosas (cohortes),

    • Hpt. Gl. 425, 8
    • .
resolute, stern.
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Cf. heard; II 2.
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  • Heardlic eornost and wíslic wærscipe and stydefætst módstaþol . . . bið witena gehwilcum weorðlicre micle, þonne hé his wísan fágige tó swíðe,

    • Ll. Th. ii. 318, 37
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hard to bear, dire, grievous.
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Cf. heard; V
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  • Egeslic ǽled eágsýne wearð, heardlic hereteám,

    • An. 1556
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  • Heom þúhte heardlic

    (durum)

    ꝥ hí wǽron genýdede on ealdum móde ꝥ hí scoldon níwe wísan hycgan.

    • Gr. D. 104, 21
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  • Silla wið Marius heardlice gefeoht þurhteáh and hiene gefliémde

    Sulla gravissimo praelio vicit,

    • Ors. 5, 11
    • ;
    • S. 236, 21
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  • Þé sind heardlicu, wundrum wælgrim wítu geteohhad,

    • Jul. 263
    • .
harsh, severe, pitiless.
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Cf. heard; VI.
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  • Þæt bið þearlic gemót, heardlic heremægen,

    • Dóm. 37
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Etymology
[
Icel. harð-ligr hard, severe.
]
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