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  • Monigo sint geceigdo, lythwón gecoren

    multi sunt vocati, pauci electi,

      Mt. L. 20, 16.

  • Lythuó gecoreno,

      22, 14. I a. with gen. :--
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  • Lythwón monna geflit

    paucorum homimum contentio,

      Mt. p. 2, 10.
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of distance
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  • Þ á hé wæs lythwón þanon ágán

    progressus pusillum

    , Mt
      26, 39.

  • Onwende hé his neb áweg lythwón,

      Lch. ii. 284, 16,
of time
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  • Lytle huíle (modicum) geséne wére hine cuæð and eftsóna lythuón

    (modicum)

    ne uére geséne,
      Jn. p. 7, 14: Gú. 363.
of extent, degree
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  • Hé lithwón hogode embe his sáwle þearfe,

      Hml. S. 26, 243 : 28, 139.

  • Se scamfæsta hæfð genóh on ðǽm tó his bettrunge ðæt his láreów hine suíðe lythwón gemyndgige his unðeáwa verecundis ad conversionem sufficit, quod eis doctor mala sua saltem leniter ad memoriam reducit, Past. 207, 4. (3 a) where the word is equivalent to an emphatic negative :-- Þone síðfæt him snotere ceorlas lythwón lógon . . . hwetton higerófne

    (far from blaming him, they urged him on),

      B. 203.
gradually, little by little
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  • Lythuón onginnes from fruma, æfter ðon ðý æfterra . . .

    paulatim incipiens a primo, deinde secundo . . . ,

      Mt. p. 11, 11.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “lyt-hwón.” 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/54896.

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