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heavy, weighed down
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  • Hefitýme

    grauidum,

    • Germ. 402, 53
    • .
weighty, of great importance, serious
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  • Ðence se abbod hú mycele byrðene and hú hefigtýme hé underféncg mid ðám

    háde abba cogitet quale onus suscepit,

    • R. Ben. 118, 19
    • .
grave (offence, &c.), severe, serious in its effects
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  • Hú micel wíte is and hú hefigtýme þæt man on ámánsumunge sié

    quanta pena sit excommunicationis,

    • R. Ben. 54, 1
    • :
    • 48, 10
    • .
  • Hit byþ swíðe hefigtýme gylt

    grave delictum est,

    • 138, 26
    • .
  • For swǽrum and hefigtýmum (heálicum,

    • R. Ben. I. 78, 8)

    gylte

    pro gravi culpa,

    • 70, 3
    • .
  • Þurh swíðe hefigtýmne hunger þe þisne eard swíðe gedrehte,

    • Chr. 1096
    • ;
    • P. 233, 4
    • .
  • Oft hit getímað þæt swýþe hefigtýme sacu and ungeþwǽrnessa

    (scandala gravia)

    on mynstre áspringað,

    • R. Ben. 124, 3
    • .
  • Be hefigtýmum gyltum

    de gravioribus culpis,

    • 49, 12, 14
    • .
of persons,
oppressive, annoying, troublesome
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  • Hefigtýme hig wǽron mé

    molesti erant mihi.

    • Ps. L. 54, 4
    • .
of things,
hard to bear, grievous; in a weaker sense, tedious.
used attributively
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  • Hé geðafað þæt ðá árleásan his hálgan ðearle geswencað mid hefigtýmre éhtnysse,

    • Hml. Th. i. 574, 23
    • .
  • Án licgende mǽden on langsumre sáre ðurh hefigtýmum heáfodece

    (cf. per integrum annum intolerabili capitis dolore vexata,

    • Vit. Cuth. c. 30
    • ),
    • ii. 150, 5
    • .
used predicatively, where the source of trouble is given,
by a noun (or pronoun)
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  • Wearð his lif swiðe hefigtýme ðám gebróðrum, ac hí hit forbǽron for his bróðer gódnysse,

    • Hml. Th. i. 534, 5
    • .
  • Þæt hit (þis godspel, 21) tó hefigtýme ne ðince þám heorcnigendum,

    • ii. 72, 23.
by a clause or pronoun representing one
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  • Þincð ús hefigtýme ꝥ wé him gehýrsumian,

    • Hml. A. 6, 134
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  • Him hefigtýme wæs ꝥ hí hine gesáwon,

    • 75, 74
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  • God gelácnað his gecorenra gyltas mid mislicum brocum; and þeáh ðe hit hefigtýme sý ðám ðrowigendum,

    • Hml. Th. i. 472, 19
    • .
by a dat. infin.
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  • Þuhte mé hefigíme þé tó tiþienne þæs,

    • Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 1, 6
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  • Hit is láð and hefitýme lǽwedum tolce tó gehiranne . . . hwæt on hálgum bócum áwriten is,

    • Wlfst. 304, 15
    • .
of a period in which weather or other conditions are unfavourable:
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  • On þám tíman wæs swíðe hefigtíme wynter, and se mere wæs mid forste oferþeaht,

    • Hml. S. 11, 142.
  • Ðis wæs swíðe hefigtíme geár ǽgðer ge þurh mænigfealde gylda and eác þurh hefigtýmne hunger,

    • Chr. 1096
    • ;
    • P. 233, 3
    • .
  • Eall ꝥ geár wæs swíðe hefigtíme on manegum þingum and mislicum, ge on unwæderum, ge on eorðwæstmum, and mycel orfes wæs þæs geáres forfaren,

    • 1041
    • ;
    • P. 163, 11
    • .
oppressive to the senses or faculties
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  • Nis crístenum monnum nán ðing swá hefigtýme swá swá oferfyl. Be ðám se Hǽlend clypað, 'Warniað þæt eówere heortan ne sýn ofersýmede

    (grauentur)

    mid oferfylle,'

    • R. Ben. 63, 21
    • .
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