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convulsive movement of a person
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  • Heó ongann mid swá fela styrungum beón onstyred

    coepit tot motibus agitari,

      Gr. D. 74, 2.
quaking, shaking of an inanimate body
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  • Beóð eorðan styrunga erunt terrae motus, Mt. 24, 7. II c. add: stir :-- On merigen wearð micel styrung betwux ðám cempum (

    as soon as it was day there was no small stir among the soldiers;

    facta die erat non parva turbatio inter milites, Acts
      12, 18), Hml. Th. ii. 382, 27.

  • Gód is tó forhæbbenne fram unálýfedum styrungum,

      564, 7.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “styrung.” 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/58683.

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