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the mistress of a household (lit. and fig.)
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  • Hýredes hláford

    paterfamilias,

    hýredes móder oððe hlǽfdige

    materfamilias,

    • Wrt. Voc. i. 73, 21
      • .

  • Seó sáwl is ðæs flǽsces hlǽfdige, and hire gedafnað ꝥ heó simle gewylde ðá wylne, ꝥ is ꝥ flǽsc tó hyre hǽsum. Þwyrlíce færð æt ðám húse þǽr seó wyln bið þǽre hlǽfdigan wissigend, and seó hlǽfdige bið þǽre wylne underðeódd.

    • Hml. S. 17, 8-12.

  • Þǽre hláfdian

    matrone,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 54, 65
      • .

  • Swé swé égan menenes hondum hláfdian hire

    (dominae suae),

    • Ps. Srt. 122, 2.
the lady superior of a convent:
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  • Galla, ꝥ Godes mennen, laþode tó hire þá móder and hlǽfdian eallre þǽre gesomnunge

    cunctae congregationis accivit matrem,

    • Gr. D. 280, 20
      • .

  • Þá foregangendan hlǽfdian,

    • 26.
a queen (lit. or fig.)
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  • Ætstód kquén ł hlǽfdige

    (regina)

    æt swíðran þínum,

    • Ps. L. 44, 10
      • .

  • Seó sáwul is þæs líchoman hlǽfdige, and heó gewissað þá fíf andgitn swá swá of cynesætle ... Hyre gedafnað ꝥ heó swá swá hlǽfdige foresceáwige hwæt heó gehwylcum lime bebeóde tó dónne,

    • Hml. S. 1, 195-203.
applied to the Virgin Mary the queen of heaven, Our Lady :
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  • Eálá þú hlǽfdige, ealles middaneardes cwén,

    • Hml. S. 23 b, 487
      • :
    • 472
      • .

  • Bide þá eádigan Sanctan Marian þíne leófan hlǽfdian,

    • Angl. xii. 515, 2
      • .
as title of an English king's wife.
in the king's lifetime
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  • Hugon þe seó hléfdige

    (Ethelred's queen)

    heafde hire gesett tó geréfan,

    • Chr. 1003
      • ;
    • P. 135, 6
      • .

  • Se cyng

    (Edward)

    geaf þǽre hlǽfdian (cf. seó cwén,

    • 182, 7
      • )

  • Ǽrest his kynehláforde ǽnne beáh on hundeahtotigan mancysan goldes ... And þǽre hlǽfdian (hlǽdigan,

    • C.D. ii. 380, 29)

    (dominae suae reginae,

    • 504, 1
      • )

    ǽnne beáh on þrittigan mancyssan goldes,

    • Cht. Th. 501, 10.

  • Ic ann mínæn cinæhláfordæ ... and þám æþelingæ ... and þǽre hlǽfdigan ...,

    • 553, 37
      • .
after the king's death
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  • Hér forðférde Cnut cing ... and Ælfgyfu Imme seó hlǽfdie sæt ðǽr

    (Winchester)

    binnan,

    • Chr. 1035
      • ;
    • P. 158, 11
      • .

  • On þýs ylcan geáre forðférde seó ealde hlǽfdige

    (the queen dowager),

    Eádwerdes cinges móder, Imme hátte,

    • 1051
      • ;
    • P. 172, 32
      • .

  • Eadweard cingc and Ælfgyfu seó hléfdige

    (cf. Ego, Eadward rex ... Ego, Ælfgyfa praedicti regis mater ...,

    • 75, 8
      • ),
    • C.D. iv. 76, 13
      • .

  • Eádgyð seó hlǽfdie forðférde, seó wæs Eádwardes cynges geresta,

    • Chr. 1076
      • ;
    • P. 212, 19
      • .
as a form of courteous address, lady(?)
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  • Cueð hir tó se Hǽlend, 'Maria'

    (in the margin ꝥ is on Englis, hláfdia),
    • Jn. L. 20, 16
      • .
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hlǽfdige.” 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/52642.

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