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hwónlíce

  • adverb
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for a little while
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  • Mín sylfes gást wæs hwónlíce ormód worden

    defecit paulisper spiritus meus

    ,
      Ps. Th. 76, 4.
slightly, little.
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  • Hwónlíce gelýfede menn

    men slightly endowed with belief

    ,
      Hml. Th. i. 566, 28.
  • Hwón-lícor

    minus (compta ),

      An. Ox. 1015.
with verbs, where action is slight in operation or result
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  • Hwónlíce (wónlíce, 2, 55) hwapelaþ

    sensim scaluriat

    ,
      An. Ox. 1890.
  • Scortlíce and hwónlíce (wónlíce, 2, 235)

    strictim et summatim (commemorandum ),

    3656.
  • Hwónlíce

    sum-matim (expletis exemplis ),

    3878.
  • Ic and míne dohtra . . . hí ǽfre tihton tó þínre geþafunga, þeáh ðe ús hwónlíce speówe (

    though our success has been slight

    ),
      Hml. S. 8, 34.
  • Þá þe hwónlíce understandan magan hú micel wíte is þæt man on ámánsumunge sié qui minus intelligere possunt quanta pena excommunicationis, R. Ben. 54, l. Tó-dæg wé habbað hwónlíce be hláf, ac tó-merigen wé sceolon habban genihtsumlíce (cf. quare de panis inopia vester animus contristatur ?

    Hodie quidem minus est, sed die crastina abundantes habebitis

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      Gr. D. c. 21), Hml. Th. ii. 172, 2.
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  • hwónlíce, adv.