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láþ

  • adjective
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láþ, adj.
Wright's OE grammar
§426;
Dele passage in l. 19, and add
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  • Láþe

    exosas

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 30, 25.
hateful, repulsive
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  • Láþ unclǽnnys

    detestanda obscenitas

    ,
      An. Ox. 4301.

  • Láþera inuisorum (uitiorum), 885. I a.

    hateful

    to a person :-- Hú láð eów selfum wæs tó gelǽstanne eówre áþas,
      Ors. 3, 8; S. 122, 16.

  • Ingeþanc Gode láþe

    precordia Deo inuisa

    ,
      An. Ox. 3567.

  • Ic wát þæt nán swá gód man ne leofað swá hé is, þéh þe hé mé sié se láþesta, Ors. 5, 12 ; S. 244, 1. I b. antithetical to leóf :-- Leóf carus, láð

    odiosus

    ,
      Wrt. Voc. i. 85, 63, 64.

  • Sume men wyllað betǽcan heora láðostan (

    least loved

    ) cild tó Godes láreówdóme. Ac hí ne geefenlǽcað ná Abrahame þe his leófran sunn tó láce geoffrode,
      Hml. A. 35, 265.
unwilling, loath (?)
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  • Láþ

    inuitam (but perhaps the glosser has read inuisam ),

    An
      Ox. 5406.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “láþ.” 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/54337.

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