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misery, wretchedness, calamity
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  • Se cyning . . . hæfþ máran ermþe

    majorem regibus inest miseriae portionem,

      Bt. 29, I; F. 102, 25.

  • Þá monigfealdan iermþo þá wérigan burg swíþe brociende wáran maxima omnium malorum abominenta fessam urbem corripuere, Ors. 2, 4; S. 70, lo. Yrmþa (eormða, Hpt. Gl. 519, 68)

    calamitatum,

      An. Ox. 2973.

  • Hié on ðǽm iermþum heora líf geendodon,

      Ors. 2, 2 ; S. 66, 19.
in a moral sense,
badness
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  • Gif hine mon leahtor-fulne ongit. . . him mon secge þæt hé þanon gewíte, þe lǽs hé mid his yrmðe (

    miseria

    ) óþre geleahtrige,
      R. Ben. 109, 20.
poverty, destitution
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  • Hú ne hæfdest ; þú ðá earmþe (yrmþe, v. l.) þá þá þú welegost wǽre?

    tu hanc insufficientiam plenus opibus sustinebas),

      Bt. 26, , 1 ; F. 92, 6.

  • Ermðe (wiédle,

    v. l.) indigentiam,

      26, 2 ; F. 94, 9.

  • Ðonne hé ongiet ðæt ðone earman ne magon his iermða

    (paupertas)

    geeaðmédan,
      Past. 183, 15.

  • Ðone ðe on ðǽm ofne ásoden bið his iermða

    quos caminus paupertatis excoquit,

    3.

  • On dínum iermðum

    (paupertate),

      181, 13.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “irmþ.” 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/54034.

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