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  • Figmenta, i. plasmatio, mendacia

    híwunga,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 148, 78
    • .
shaping, forming of material
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  • Adam lifde æfter þǽre menniscan híwunge .dcccc. wintra and þrittig wintra; and þé sexteoþegan geáre fram his híwunge hé gegylte,

    • Angl. xi. 1, 13-16
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shape of a material object, frame, make, constitution
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  • Hé sylf oncneów híwunga ł gescapennysse

    (figmentum)

    úre,

    • Ps. L. 102, 14.
shape, form, species, kind of non-material object:
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  • Nis nán ásecgendlic oððe unásecgendlic fracodlicnysse híwung þæs ic ne sih tihtende and lǽrende,

    • Hml. S. 23. 5, 383
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transformation, taking of another shape
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  • Hí woldon mid heora híwunge

    (the taking by evil spirits of the figures of various animals)

    þæs hálgan weres mód áwendan,

    • Guth. Gr. 139, 10
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an illusory shape, deceptive appearance
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  • Galdra híwung litigum híwunge híwedan fordwán

    pręstrigiarum scena (i. umbra) (quam) callido fantasmate (falsi nebulones) schematizarunt ... disparuit,

    • An. Ox. 4057
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  • Smeágende hwæðre hit gást wǽre þæt þǽr mid hwylcere híwunga gebǽde hí

    putans ne spiritus esset, qui se fingeret orare,

    • Hml. S. 23 b, 281
    • .
pretending to do what is not really done
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  • Ðá bǽdon hí ... ꝥ ... hé dyde swilce hé ǽte ... and swá mid ðǽre híwunge him sylfum geburge. Ðá cwæð hé: 'Ic eom eald tó híwigenne ... bið mín híwung þám geongum tó forwyrde,

    • Hml. S. 25, 90-97.
a pretence, trick:
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  • Heówunga

    praestigias,

    • An. Ox. 2238
    • .
pretending to be what one is not, simulation
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  • Ǽlc híwung is antsǽte Gode,

    • Hml. S. 12, 246
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  • Hé wiste ꝥ hé mid feóndlicum cræfte ne mihte bedydrian Martines gesihðe ... wæs ðá geswutelod his híwung,

    • 31, 827
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  • Wǽron óþre gedwolan Antecrístes lima, mid árleásra híwunge,

    • 832.
  • Hú hé árásode þá híwunge Totillan

    de simulatione Totilae deprehensa,

    • Gr. D. 130, 13
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  • Se deófol gedéð ꝥ se man þurh lícetende híwunge déð, swylce hé andgytful sý, þe lytel can tó geráde,

    • Wlfst. 53, 4
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  • Þurh leáse híwunge,

    • 8.
pretence of piety or goodness, hypocrisy:
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  • Hí sceolon habban eáðmódnysse on heora æðelum þeáwum mid nánre híwunge,

    • Hml. A. 39, 385
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  • Manega geleáfan Crístes ná lufiað, ac þæne þurh leáse híwunge gehealdan hí gehíwiað

    multi fidem Christi non amant, sed eandem per hypochrisin tenere se simulant,

    • Scint. 129, 12
    • .
of speech,
false speech, fiction
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  • Híwung oððe leásspel

    figmentum,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 34, 43
    • .
  • Híwungum

    commentis (haereticorum lenocinantibus illectus ),

    • An. Ox. 2911
    • .
  • Híwunga

    frivola (falsitatis vaticinantem),

    • 1929.
speech in which the apparent meaning is not the real, irony
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  • Hironiam þurh smicernesse and híwunge,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 42, 54.
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