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hwíl-tídum

  • noun [ feminine ]
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Wright's OE grammar
§557;
Substitute: hwíl-tíd, e; f. A time
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  • Ic bidde eów þæt gé þises gewrites gíman and on hwíltídum hit on gemynde habban,

      Wlfst. 108, 17. ¶ the word occurs almost only in the dat. pl. used as an adverb. Add: to the examples in Dict. :
sometimes, as opposed to never,
from time to time, now and again
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  • Gehwilce untrumnyssa hwíltídum þǽr wurdon gehǽlede,

      Hml. S. 36, 420.
at times, at intervals, as opposed to always or continuously
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  • Cwyst þú hwæþer hittó gelýfenne sý ꝥ þysum Godes þeówan mihte symble æt beón se wíte-dómes gást, hwæþer be hwíltídum (

    per intervalla temporum

    ) his mód gefylde þæs wítedómes gást ?,
      Gr. D. 146, 5.
correlative,
sometimes . . . at others
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  • Hwílt[ídum] . . . hwíltídum

    modo . . . modo

    ,
      An. Ox. 92-107.

  • Sculan þá gebróðra hwíltídum (

    certis temporibus) beón ábyse-gode mid heora handa geswince, hwíltídum (certis iterum )

    mid rǽdinge,
      R. Ben. 73, 4-6.

  • Se móna is hwíltídum weaxende, hwíltídum wani-ende,

      Hml. Th. ii. 214, 32.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “hwíl-tídum.” 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/53591.

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