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fǽr-cwealm

  • noun [ masculine ]
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fǽr-cwealm, es; m.
A sudden pestilence; repentīna pestĭlentia
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  • Æt ðæm fǽrcwealme ðe his leódscipe swýðe drehte and wanode

    in the pestilence which much afflicted and decreased his people,

    • L. Edg. S. 1
    • ;
    • Th. i. 270,
    • 8.
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v.  cwealm.
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  • fǽr-cwealm, n.